Ros-general February 2004

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Posix
by James Tabor 12 Feb '04

12 Feb '04

Hi! Got this~ make -f Makefile -C ../reactos/../posix/server make[1]: Entering directory `/scsi/ros/posix/server' i386-mingw32-gcc -Iinclude -I../include -D__PSXSS_ON_W32__ -I./ -I../../reactos/include -pipe -march=i386 -D_M_IX86 -c misc/main.c -o misc/main.o In file included from include/psxss.h:8, from misc/main.c:35: ../include/psx/lpcproto.h:89:25: psx/syscall.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [misc/main.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/scsi/ros/posix/server' make: *** [server] Error 2 I can not find syscall.h. Does anyone know where it went? I'm playing with posix right now since it's on my mind, Thanks, James

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Wine Weekly Newsletter
by jh 12 Feb '04

12 Feb '04

This article includes Reactos. http://www.winehq.com/?issue=208 Regards jh

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Problems booting
by James Pritchard 12 Feb '04

12 Feb '04

I've been trying to use the 0.2 release on some real hardware and am having problems with getting it to boot. I've tried the binary version using a windows 98 base and booting into a dos prompt. This method results in the computer restarting almost immediately. That was using aboot.bat or boot.bat (modified to debug to screen). I then tried the iso which booted and started the installer. I installed it fine on to the first partition of the first harddisk which is set as active. When it reboots at the end of the install freeloader fails to find it configuration file.and one time said that it had found invalid partition magic. I'm keen to get this working so I can start debugging the code and making the GDI more functional. The machine I'm trying to run this on is a Pentium 133 with 48 Mb of ram a 4 gb HD on IDE1 master, cd on IDE2 master. Any ideas or advice on how to get a log file out of the loader? I do have yesterdays CVS and have built it but haven't tried it yet. James Pritchard

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MS notepad running in ROS
by jh 10 Feb '04

10 Feb '04

Hi all, Today I have had ms notepad running in ros and I have been able to save what I typed. The menus at the top do not work, but when I was exiting the programme, it asked if I wanted to save the changes that had been made, so with a few clicks and a bit more typing, it save the file in the windows directory. It is very slow, but I am excited about it, just like a little child. Well done team, keep it up. Regards jh

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installing drivers
by jh 09 Feb '04

09 Feb '04

Hello, How are video card drivers installed in ros. Do we just drop the dll's in \system32 and any sys files in \drivers. I have down loaded the nt4 drivers for a S3virge DX card that I have, what do I do with them? This is the list: Blocking.cfg - S3switch.dll - S3virge.dll - S3mini.sys - S3virge.inf I also down loaded a little prog that finds the S3 chip used. This prog works in part in ros, it reports that you need admin privileges without displaying any data. Regards jh

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Introducing our ReactOS Translation Coordinator
by Jason Filby 08 Feb '04

08 Feb '04

Hi all The news is that Aleksey Bragin has taken on the role of ReactOS Translation Coordinator! This means that we'll be seeing some internationalization that's everyone's being wanting. But don't everyone go asking what they can translate just yet - Aleksey needs to get familiar with ezPublish (CMS used by reactos.com) and get organized for the role first - but watch this space. Cheers Jason __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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innovations...
by Jeff Smith 08 Feb '04

08 Feb '04

I was wonderng if/what improvements we are likely to create, like will we try to create our own Networking protocol just for ReactOS, or our own Binary format, new API's, or other idea I'm not getting right now, will we add to reactOS after we have base Win32 compatibility?

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(no subject)
by David Dunn 07 Feb '04

07 Feb '04

*~* I also agree with this, We should take Firebird (since its only the browser (not mail, IRC, composer, etc.) and its faster than IE) and add in the ActiveX control plug in (which you can get at: http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/plugin.htm) and also make a COM wrapper for the Gecko rendering engine, between those two we should have a full replacement to IE for the OS. I think that there was some Netscape employees working on making a COM wrapper for Mozilla, but I can't remember the website, and development seemed to be pretty inactive, but its better than starting from scratch. *~* No, no, I don't think you get what I'm suggesting. Both Mozilla and Firebird have the same engine under the hood. The speed difference is mostly because seamonkey loads more than just the browser. The ActiveX control is simply a way to access the browser, all of those other features are actually add-ons that don't need to be installed. As for the dummy-browser, it's actually quite simple to do. I would if I better understood ActiveX, but the "official" website for the control has a variety of demos to work from. The dummy-browser would be a little bit more useful than just plain Firebird, since we could integrate bookmarking features with ros explorer much in the same way microsoft does with IE. If modified properly, the control could replace IE completely. It wouldn't be needed for anything anymore.

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RE: [ros-general] Browsers
by Colin Burn 07 Feb '04

07 Feb '04

What would happen if you installed IE on ReactOS? Does the licence allow this? Whilst I'm thinking about it... What would happen if a user went to the windows update site? -----Original Message----- From: Nate DeSimone [mailto:desimn@rpi.edu] Sent: 05 February 2004 07:12 To: ros-general(a)reactos.com Subject: Re: [ros-general] Browsers I also agree with this, We should take Firebird (since its only the browser (not mail, IRC, composer, etc.) and its faster than IE) and add in the ActiveX control plug in (which you can get at: http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/plugin.htm) and also make a COM wrapper for the Gecko rendering engine, between those two we should have a full replacement to IE for the OS. I think that there was some Netscape employees working on making a COM wrapper for Mozilla, but I can't remember the website, and development seemed to be pretty inactive, but its better than starting from scratch. David Dunn wrote: > I went through the forum and heard a lot of things about which browser > (mostly mozilla) should be used as the default for ROS. > > Just my idea, but I think that we should use a modified version of the > Mozilla ActiveX control instead with a dummy browser placed on top. > There are 3 reasons why I think that this (even though it may be more > difficult) is probably the best choice in the long run. > > -Programs that require IE will instead be redirected to use Mozilla's > rendering engine instead > -The dummy browser could store it's bookmarks in a similar manner to > the way IE does adding to the startbutton/bookmarks compatibility > -Still promotes OSS > > Firebird and Mozilla are great and all, but if there isn't > compatability with the myriads of programs that want to call IE for > some reason or another ROS will be slower to be adopted > _______________________________________________ > ros-general mailing list > ros-general(a)reactos.com > http://reactos.com/mailman/listinfo/ros-general > > _______________________________________________ ros-general mailing list ros-general(a)reactos.com http://reactos.com/mailman/listinfo/ros-general

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Out of the office and all of that.....
by Steven Edwards 06 Feb '04

06 Feb '04

Sorry if you have had mail bounced to me and all of that. I am still on post-wineconf vacation until monday and my mailbox is a little overflowing. Thanks Steven __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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