Ros-general January 2010

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A new name for arwinss?
by Joshua Bailey 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

I don't see any issue with the name Arwinss. It doesn't have the same structure as the traditional Win32, but is a hybrid between Windows' Win32 and Wine's, so Arwinss is a distinctive name to differentiate it from more mainstream implementations of Win32. I say keep the name Arwinss. -Joshua Bailey

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Re: [ros-general] A new name for arwinss?
by Aleksey Bragin 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

The codename I used throughout the first phase of experimental closed development was Wine32k. Arwinss was invented later as a neutral codename when I felt it was ready to be committed. WBR, Aleksey Bragin. On Jan 19, 2010, at 12:05 PM, pay7n(a)o2.pl wrote: > I completely agree with the idea, but your examples are rubbish. > > > > - Marius Przybylski > > > Dnia 19 stycznia 2010 9:14 Andrew Faulds <ajfweb(a)googlemail.com> > napisał(a): > >> Win32k Subsystem 2.0? >> Wine32k? >> Wine32 Subsystem? >> or: >> Wine Subsystem? >> >> Sent from my iPod >> Andrew Faulds (andrewweb)

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A new name for arwinss?
by Andrew Faulds 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

Win32k Subsystem 2.0? Wine32k? Wine32 Subsystem? or: Wine Subsystem? Sent from my iPod Andrew Faulds (andrewweb)

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Trying to boot via grub without cd.
by Elliot S 16 Jan '10

16 Jan '10

Hi, I'm trying to run ReactOS (3.11) from Grub and without a cd. I have win98 on a SCSI C drive and Puppy Linux frugal install boot files on IDE D drive. I tried copying an "unzip'd" iso to the D drive and added the appropriate menu item to the grub menu, similar to my Puppy entry (Title, rootnoverify, kernel). When i tried booting ReactOS, it started the sys file and then said it couldnt find freeldr.ini. I tried both Live and Install iso's....same result. How do i get it to find the ini file? Thanx

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ReactOS 0.3.11 release report
by Aleksey Bragin 07 Jan '10

07 Jan '10

Hello, some statistical information about our latest release - 0.3.11, released 16th of Dec, 2009. Website experienced visitors increase starting 16.12.2009 with almost 12 000 unique visits and slowly fading out to normal 5 000 by 24th of December. The peak value of 16 500 unique visits was registered the next day after release announcement - 17th of December. Main traffic sources for this date period were: 1. Direct traffic - 24k visits 2. Google - 15k 3. habrahabr.ru - 4200 4. osnews.com - 3700 5. techradar.com - 2000 6. meneame.net - 1500 7. golem.de - 1200 8. linux.org.ru - 850 As for countries, it's the first time Russia outperformed Germany and moved to the 2nd place after the United States. Good work of our Russian PR colleagues! Also, Spain is now on the fourth place, which means vicmarcal and his colleagues really did a good job to bring their country to such high position. The Top 10 looks this way: 1. USA 2. Russia 3. Germany 4. Spain 5. China 6. Ukraine 7. Poland 8. Italy 9. UK 10. Brazil. UK still provided rather low visitors count, though it has a high potential. More expansion to the United Kingdom is needed. And it's a fashion trend now to quote web browsers popularity, let's use this chance and say Top 5 of web browsers used to visit our website during release period: 1. Mozilla FireFox (my congratulations to Mozilla team!) - 40k 2. Internet Explorer - 12k 3. Chrome - 10k (not bad for a start!) 4. Opera - 9k 5. Safari - 2.7k Release images were as usual published at SourceForge.NET, which has, I think, the biggest file mirroring system for opensource projects. Overall value by today is that all 0.3.11 related files were downloaded 48,654 times since the moment of release. To compare, 0.3.10 was downloaded 2234,808 times, 0.3.9 101,405 times. Such small value for 0.3.11 is explained by only 3 weeks which passed since the moment of release, and that those 3 weeks had year's most important holidays - Christmas and New Year. It's also interesting to look what people are mostly interested in from what we offer: the definite leader is plain installation ISO, which is downloaded almost 19,000 times. Second place is occupied by the LiveCD with almost 12,000 downloads, which shows how important it is to have a working LiveCD for us. Third place is the VMWare preinstalled image with 6,000 downloads and fourth place is VirtualBox with 5,000 downloads. VMWare still leads, but VirtualBox did a nice catch up, outperforming QEmu preinstalled image which has only 4,000 downloads. The least downloaded file is the 0.3.11 source code with only slightly more than 2,000 downloads so far. WBR, Aleksey Bragin.

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Extended deadline for proposals for the Alt-OS devroom at FOSDEM
by François Revol 02 Jan '10

02 Jan '10

Hello, I have been unavailable for a week, and it seems a lot of people were cut off the Net last month busy with family... The deadline for the propositions for the Alt-OS devroom at FOSDEM has been extended to 2010-01-05, to allow at least one talk per project. The shedule must be sent rapidly to the FOSDEM team so we can't stretch it much more. I'd really like to have a talk about ReactOS. I'll try to arrange for a place to put flyers about each project too. For the record, the original call for contributions with all the details: http://groups.google.com/group/rosetta-os/browse_thread/thread/16964e21bef2… François.

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