Ros-general February 2004

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RE: [ros-general] Browsers
by eek2121＠comcast.net 06 Feb '04

06 Feb '04

IIRC windows sockets were based on BSD sockets. > > > On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Vizzini wrote: > > > On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 17:15, Ian McLean wrote: > > > I thought IE was based on NCSA Mosaic ? Or is Mozilla based on this also ? > > Actually, I think IE is based on the Spyglass browser, which is probably > only a distant cousin at this point to Mosaic. > > BTW: Has anybody considered that the BSD TCP stack may be easier to port > to ReactOS? I work with another open-source operating system called eCos, > and it uses the BSD networking stack but its design is not like a > traditional UNIX kernel. > > Perhaps this might be an easier path. I think the BSD stacks were designed > to be ported more easily than the Linux one. I guess the things we would > need are: > > * TDI "glue" > * NDIS "glue" > * A wrapper for a memory pool to allow the mbuf allocator to run. > (we could just tie the mbuf allocator to the non-paged pool?) > > Another cool thing would be to port OpenPF from the OpenBSD project to > ReactOS. Its an excellent packet filter and designed to work with the > OpenBSD stack as well. > > But I really do think that ReactOS needs to get a working TCP stack before > people worry too much about what browser to use. > > L8r, > Mark G. > > _______________________________________________ > ros-general mailing list > ros-general(a)reactos.com > http://reactos.com/mailman/listinfo/ros-general

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Browsers
by David Dunn 06 Feb '04

06 Feb '04

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

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ReactOS web presence
by Martin Fuchs 06 Feb '04

06 Feb '04

Hello, I got an offer of a PHP web programmer via private email to help developing the ReactOS web site: > I am actually more of a PHP web-programmer. If you need any web > programming for ROS, I can certainly help you in that area! I know, the current reactos home works quite well - just in case there are some ideas for improvement. Regards, Martin

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Has anyone seen/looked at this? Its a GPLed dos VM for win32.
by Wierd Wierd 04 Feb '04

04 Feb '04

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox/ I have seen that our dos VM is a bit on the weak side, and since this is GPL, might be worth looking at. It's allready written for win32. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/

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Wineconf Photo
by Steven Edwards 03 Feb '04

03 Feb '04

http://www.lst.de/~mm/p2010033.jpg In case any of you want to see what viz really looks like =P. Thanks Steven __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/

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Re: [ros-general] Wineconf Photo
by Tobias Ussing 03 Feb '04

03 Feb '04

and i were just about to say OMG, i fell so young! Tobias >From: James Tabor <jimtabor(a)adsl-64-217-116-74.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net> >Reply-To: ros-general(a)reactos.com >To: ros-general(a)reactos.com >Subject: Re: [ros-general] Wineconf Photo >Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 02:07:33 +0000 > >OMG, >I feel so old! >James > >Steven Edwards wrote: >>http://www.lst.de/~mm/p2010033.jpg >> >>In case any of you want to see what viz really looks like =P. >> >>Thanks >>Steven >> >> >_______________________________________________ >ros-general mailing list >ros-general(a)reactos.com >http://reactos.com/mailman/listinfo/ros-general _________________________________________________________________ Få alle de nye og sjove ikoner med MSN Messenger http://messenger.msn.dk

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Status of the wiki
by Robert K. 03 Feb '04

03 Feb '04

Hi, what's the status of Rex's Wiki page. Is it still current and used?

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Re: [coLinux-devel] Linux native drivers/Direct hardware access
by Steven Edwards 01 Feb '04

01 Feb '04

--- Dan Aloni <da-x(a)gmx.net> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 02:25:21PM +0200, Sat Rookie wrote: > > > Is it possible to use native linux drivers to access REAL hardware > without > > writing special wrappers for every device type? > > > > PS: I mean not 'Windows-Must-Have' hardware like keyboard or mouse > but > > ADDITIONAL hardware like MPEG Capture card, DVB TV Card,... > > Not currently. coLinux is designed to be a virtual Linux. But do you think its possible via a Windows filer driver? I guess I am thinking about replacing the Linux PnP implementation and passing it off to the Windows PnP Manager and then using Linux network cards and such as a quick and dirty wrapper to get Linux driver support for us on ReactOS. Thanks Steven __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/

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Re: Interest in ReactOS
by Al Hartman 01 Feb '04

01 Feb '04

Uh, guys? Just as a potential user... If I want a Linux Filesystem (which is INCOMPREHENSIBLE to me), I'll use Linux. You are created an Open Sourced Windows Compatible OS. Stick with compatibility as the first thing. THEN, if you can do something faster and better without breaking compatibility.... Then do it! But, If I wanted Linux, I'm well served by hundreds of Distributions... There is currently, not ONE Windows Compatibile Open Sourced OS. And thanks for making one! Al

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NTobject namespace (was: "Interest in ReactOS" / "Drive letters")
by Martin Fuchs 01 Feb '04

01 Feb '04

Hello, to make visible as a picture what has been discussed in the recent discussion about drive letters, in which way to mount them and eventual extension for new file system standards, I want to post a screenshot of the new ROS Explorer version. I implemented display of NT object namespace. So you can now see the internals of NTDLL, where and how drive letters are mounted and much more. Even the registry can been seen as an integrated part of NT object namespace. -- Martin Fuchs martin-fuchs(a)gmx.net

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