Ros-general July 2005

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Forward to or put a link to http://reactosde.re.funpic.de on the ROS homepage?
by reactos 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

Wouldn't it be good to forward web-users to http://reactosde.re.funpic.de ? or at least put a link for those wanting to go on with something? Yours sincerely, Jaix Bly

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SYSTEMS-2005 exhibition in Munchen
by Aleksey Bragin 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Hi, ReactOS could get a free booth in SYSTEM-2005 expo in Munchen, which is going to take place in October. I don't know for sure if I go myself, but please, if you think you can go - please drop me an email, and I will submit a registration request to them. http://www.systems.de WBR, Aleksey.

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Reactos.com problems
by Ge van Geldorp 23 Jul '05

23 Jul '05

There are pretty strong indications that the reactos.com box was cracked. It took part in a DDoS attack. As a consequence, it was isolated from the network. Unfortunately, I'm on vacation right now so I don't have physical access to the box and am unable to fix/reinstall. For the moment, I've moved the mailing lists to a backup box. I am not moving the website, since it seems the attack was carried out via the website (a vulnerability in one of the php script packages we use). I'll put up a dummy page informing visitors. Not sure how far along the release of 0.2.7 is, but I'd like to suggest to put it off for at least another week, until I'm back and can sort things out. Apologies for the inconvenience, Ge van Geldorp.

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Web site down!
by reactos 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

Hello everyone who is trying to connect to the ReactOS homepage, I can give you some information about the homepage. First, the webbox where the site is hosted on is down by an unknown reason, GvG who has physical access to it is on vacation in France (the box is in the Netherlands) and he recieved a mail from the security department on the university that host the box, it seams to be some sort of serious problem with it, they are supposed to have tried to restart the webbox. We will probably not se the ROS site up until GvG comes home from his vacation. This information we obtained from GvG this morning (050722), it may change, but til then be patient, sorry for the inconvenience. Yours sincerely, Jaix Bly

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Reactos.com unavailable
by Ge van Geldorp 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

There are strong indications that the reactos.com box got cracked. Unfortunately, I'm on vacation right now and unable to fix things. Since it is causing problems on the network it will be isolated, meaning no network traffic in or out. This will mean the website will go down and the mailing lists will become inactive. I'm sorry about this, but there is not much I can do for the next week. Ge van Geldorp.

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RC1 of version 0.2.7 is out
by Robert Köpferl 18 Jul '05

18 Jul '05

ReactOS 0.2.7 RC1 is available on sourceForge. You're welcome to test and report problems

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Motion video indexing mechanism for athlete recruiting architecture
by James Tabor 16 Jul '05

16 Jul '05

Hi All! I may have missed this. I guess they are patenting indirectly the windows api. http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2… Go figure! James

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[Fwd: Help & contact!]
by James Tabor 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

Hi Did everyone get this too? James Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 16:31:03 +0200 From: Rafa? <rafkup(a)gmail.com> Hi. I am writing to you in the name of all BetaComp Team members, because we're thinking, that you are the best from the best. We make new operating system firstly based on ReactOS <http://www.reactos.com <http://www.reactos.com/>> (the part of you work on ReactOS or did it in the past). Why base on ReactOS? The answer is very simple. HostiliX (this is a name of our OS) is compatible with Windows(R) and ReactOS is compatible with Microsoft(C) product too, so we based HostiliX on ReactOS, because we don't want to waste our time to do something what is already done. Now suggest next question: Why are we doing Windows(R) clone? We are not making a Windows clone! Just most hardware manufacturers do drivers only for Windows(R), so we want to HostiliX be able to use it. We don't have time to do drivers! The same situation is with Windows applications. Most users need Windows(R) software. We want to permit them to use free operating system and them's favourite software. But running Windows software isn't our priority! We want to make new, fast, stable and secure operating system. It will have its' own SubSystem using CygWin, or CygWin clone, so it will run modified Linux applications. POSIX SubSystem must be modified of course. There won't be root directory (/). All ported from Linux to HostiliX software will use drive letters like A:, C:, (...). The will be also OS/2(R) and DOS(R) SubSystems. FAQ: Q: How want we to do drive letters in ported from Linux software? A: We want to modify libraries like GTK and QT (dialog windows) and add into it drive litters support. PosiX Layer will modify all slashes to backslash and if any program want to access / directory PosiX Layer will translate it to for example C:\HostiliX\System32\Posix where will be usr, bin, sbin and folders. Directory structure of Posix dir will be compatible with Unix directory structure. All drive letters will have shortcuts (will be mounted) somewhere in this directory. Using modified open/save/etc dialog windows user will feel that he uses any Windows application. Q: What's our pririty? A: Make HostiliX stable fast and secure with all features like logging in/out, switching user, shutting down system (power off, reboot and hibernate). Q: Will be hibernate just a hibernate? :P A: No! When system call hibernate process it will close all network connections and then unload drivers to all network hardware. Then will hibernate computer. After user power on computer again HostiliX will boot up from hibernation and then loads again unloaded before hibernation process drivers. What it adds? Let's imagine that you have Sagem Fast 800 ADSL Modem Connected to USB. When you power off your computer, driver will load, but modem will be unsynchronised with line. HostiliX will load this driver again, synchronise modem and connect to Internet again. Q: Why don't we help ReactOS Team? A: There's a few reasons. First: We don't want to do Windows clone. HostiliX will be only able to load Windows(R) drivers and run Windows(R) software, when we will do more and repair existing I/O Functions. Second: Windows software compatibility isn't our priority! Third: We don't like ReactOS Team policy. They're doing anything like this in Windows(R). They even cloned Explorer. We only want to compatible with Windows(R) startup, shutdown (without hibernate), login processes. But it won't looks like Windows. HostiliX will have its' own GUI (it's GDI + XOrg with theming support). If you have any other questions to us, if something isn't clear, please write to me. I'll reply and answer to all your questions! Why I write to you? Because we (BetaComp Team) think, that you're the best from the best. We need more people to write really good OS. If you have free time and want to make really great Operating System for home and business please help us! Please reply. I look forward to hearing from you. Yours faithfully, Rafal Kupiec BetaComp Team

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Website
by gvg＠reactos.com 02 Jul '05

02 Jul '05

The website went down last night after a log file reached 2Gb. This resulted in Apache processes being killed and restarted, which in turn led to heavy trashing. Everything should be back to normal now. Ge van Geldorp.

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