Ros-general December 2005

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0.2.9 Released!
by Brandon Turner 01 Jan '06

01 Jan '06

The ReactOS Team has released version 0.2.9 of it's operating system, designed to be compatible with the Windows NT5 model. This release brings improvements to the network model allowing applications such as firefox to run, significant improvements to the Plug and Play now provide a basic working model able to detect and load drivers, plus many other feature additions and bug fixes. The full changelog can be found: http://www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php/ChangeLog-0.2.9 It can be downloaded at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6553&package_id=6629 I want to personally send a big "Thanks" to all those developers that made this project what it has become! Brandon

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ROS Default font
by Al Hartman 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

ReactOS is coming along really well... A simple change in the next release would make a LOT of difference... Change from a Serif font to a Sans Serif Font... The Serif Font which is the current default just looks clunky and doesn't look right. Other than that, things are coming along GREAT!!! I like the new VMWare Player Image. Great idea! Another thought... Why not change the word "Start" on the Start button to "React"? :) Great work people! I can't wait until I can use ReactOS as my "Daily Driver". I wish I had programming skills so I could contribute something. I can write documentation. I might be able to help with that... Regards, Al Hartman Philadelphia, PA

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Remove svn.reactos.com DNS entry
by Ge van Geldorp 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Sunday night I will remove the svn.reactos.com DNS entry, please use svn.reactos.org in the future. If you currently have a working copy checked out from svn://svn.reactos.com you can tell svn to use svn.reactos.org in the future by: > From: WaxDragon > > Say you have a checkout in ~/src/reactos that was originally checked > out from svn://svn.reactos.com/trunk/reactos. from the root of the > checkout (~src/reactos) issue: > > svn switch --relocate svn://svn.reactos.com/trunk/reactos svn://svn.reactos.org/trunk/reactos If you're using Tortoise: > From: Maarten Bosma > > Just right click in root dir, chosse "TortiseSVN > Relocate..." and then > enter svn://svn.reactos.org/trunk/reactos into the dialog. Or if you have no local changes you could just delete your working copy and check out a new one from reactos.org. If you insist on using svn.reactos.com, add a line "213.173.252.2 svn.reactos.com" to your hosts file (/etc/hosts for Linux/Unix, %SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts on Windows). Gé van Geldorp.

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Re: [ros-dev] libjpeg
by Magnus Olsen 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

links about the issue http://slashdot.org/yro/02/07/18/157217.shtml?tid=155 http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,63200,00.html?tw=wn_story_related The patent will run out in oct 2006 after that I do not see any problem with usinh libjpg or have it in reactos Before that it is not accpect ----- Original Message ----- From: "D. Hazelton" <dhazelton(a)enter.net> To: "ReactOS Development List" <ros-dev(a)reactos.org> Sent: den 30 December 2005 13:05 Subject: Re: [ros-dev] libjpeg > On Friday 30 December 2005 03:44, Casper Hornstrup wrote: > > No problem here. JPEG is complex and I doubt we can find a significant > > smaller implementation. Which parts are patented and in which countries? > > Can you disable the parts that is covered by patents by default like we do > > with freetype? > > As far as I know the IJPG implementation (that is, the International JPEG > group) - which is used by MS as well as all GNU systems - is totally free and > clear. It is covered by something similar to the GPL and, IIRC, all you need > to do is include a copy of the license and state that you are using the > license. MS does this and, of course, Linux and BSD and all other OS > operating systems include all the docs from the source distro as well as, in > most cases, including the complete source. > > D.R.H. > _______________________________________________ > Ros-dev mailing list > Ros-dev(a)reactos.org > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev

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ibrowser dowloading winrar on reactos
by David Ianno 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

I took a screen shot of ibrowser downloading winrar on reactos. It downloaded successfully and run without problems. I tested it with rev. 20455. Awesome work. :) No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.9/216 - Release Date: 12/29/2005

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installing nic driver in vmware
by Emil Ladar 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Hallo, I'm quite new to this list. I kept watching ros-translate for a while. Yesterday I installed reactos in vmware from the .iso file, not the prefabricated vmware-image. The Installaer for svga-drivers of vmware during setup is great. But I still can find no info on the net on howto install the vmware networkcard. I don't find the wiki entry very usefull. (http://www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php/HOWTO/setup_a_network_connection) Especially the registry key: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\PCNet1 does not exists PCNet - obviously is supposed to be the name of the vmware-nic. If anybody can help me install the nic-drivers I'd like to write a how-to in the wiki - both in english as well as in german. Greetings Emil Ladar

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Visual Studio
by Alexandre Miguel Pedro Gomes 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

Hello, I saw a Visual Studio 2005 installation screenshot in reactOs home page. Is it possible to actually run it? What about VS.Net 2003? Thanks, -- Alexandre Gomes, Portugal

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GPL Screensavers
by James Tabor 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

Hi all, I thought this would be good to write about. I did manage to get the Flux.exe to work w/o any crashes. Rename Flux.scr to Flux.exe and run it. I did test the rest and they too work. Main page, http://www.reallyslick.com/ Download bin and source, http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=132601#files Thanks, James

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about how to use SUBLANG_DEFAULT and SUBLANG_NEUTRAL
by Magnus Olsen 23 Dec '05

23 Dec '05

Hi I bit sick of correct it hold time for make a rc compile with ms vs to right one. Here is the rule to use it Rule for SUBLANG_DEFAULT Basic all langues only have one offcial langues must use SUBLANG_DEFAULT example Czech, Danish, Hungarian, Polish and more. Rule for SUBLANG_NEUTRAL basic all langues only have more one offcial langues must use SUBLANG_NEUTRAL example German, French, English, Swedish, and more please think of this when you are writen or change .rc file. Thanks

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Some reactions on the 0.2.9 release
by Ge van Geldorp 23 Dec '05

23 Dec '05

Below are some sites which carry the 0.2.9 release news: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=13073 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/67702 http://www.chip.de/downloads/c1_downloads_16463157.html http://derstandard.at/?id=2285020 http://winfuture.de/news,23489.html http://www.ossblog.it/post/290/reactos-029-is-out Please give "webseek" (I guess that's our very own w3seek?) some help on the heise.de forum if you speak German. GvG

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