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by Aleksey Bragin

The ReactOS team is proud to announce the release of ReactOS 0.3.12. This is a huge release for the team, not just with regards to the number of improvements which this release holds but in terms of the leap forward architecturally, stability wise and in bringing some of the more modern aspects of the NT kernel into ReactOS. It's been almost a year since the last release and whilst this is understandably excessive, it was required to stabilize the OS due to the nature of the work which was undertaken. Focus at the start of this release was on a single area, the trap handler mechanism, which resulted in a complete rewrite of this area. This brought with it the need for more changes which escalated into many areas getting an overhaul and many new technologies being developed and brought into the core. What resulted from this was a vastly more modern kernel containing code which had been exercised significantly less than the code it replaced. This triggered a large testing phase to bring the stability and compatibility to levels above that of the previous code. During the preparation of this release, 259 bugs were fixed, including 61 regressions some of which originated from ReactOS 0.3.7. Ten of those bugs are more than 3 years old, with the oldest fixed bug being #969 (5 years old). A heavily cut down list of some of the more major changes which have been going on in the past year is as follows: • Memory Manager - The memory manager continued to see much work as the ARM team replaced each component piece by piece whilst also maintaining the functionality of the old manager. Although 0.3.12 does not completely switch over to the new manager, what is obvious are the speed, stability and compatibility improvements of this new model. • NMI support - ReactOS can now handle NMIs with a Red Screen of Death, useful for capturing hardware errors detected by the CPU or Bus. Additionally, support for 3rd party NMI callbacks has been implemented, which is useful for certain server systems. Finally, support for generating a crash dump during an NMI is partly implemented, which can help when a machine is frozen or hung and an external NMI dump switch is used. • Trap Handler Rewrite - Almost all CPU faults, trap, exception, and system call code is now written in C instead of Assembly. Many legacy and/or deprecated code paths have been disabled and performance-heavy debugging paths disabled by default. Additionally, the x64 and ARM ports now share much more of this code. Finally, the code is much cleaner and can take advantage of compiler optimizations to generate the best possible code for the CPU instead of writing hand-crafted assembly that was specific only to certain CPU models. Work is ongoing to remove even more of the last remaining Assembly routines. • EMS - Support for Emergency Management System (or Headless) has been partially implemented. The boot flags documented by Microsoft are supported, and certain debug output is sent to the serial port as expected. Work is ongoing to provide the EMS logging capabilities and to move the existing legacy KDBG debugger over EMS. SAC (Special Administration Console) driver work is also in progress to compliment this. • PnP Compatibility - Various improvements have been done to increase hardware support and support for loading 3rd party drivers. • ACPI Improvements - The ARM team has implemented the basic drivers required for supporting batteries and 3rd party UPS/battery drivers, including support for the ACPI Composite Battery specification. This support is not currently enabled in this release because ACPI is still undergoing work. • New PCI-X driver - The ARM team has been slowly working on the new PCI bus driver. Previously, ReactOS was using a very simple and mostly stubbed PCI bus driver which lacked support for many real- world PCI bus features, PCI-to-PCI bridges etc. With this new driver, compatibility on real hardware, not just virtual machines, should improve significantly, along with performance. • SxS support – Side-by-side code was added, along with loading and finding manifest files. It’s an important step forward to be compatible with modern applications which use this technology. • Pool Corruption Fixes - Perhaps the most serious of these suspected leaks were fixed thanks to combined efforts of key ReactOS developers utilising advanced methods including a customized version of QEMU virtual machine. • Timer and message handling rewrite - Incorrect handling of non- queued messages led to deadlocks in some applications which the message handling rewrite resolved. The timer implementation rewrite is also completed by this release which fixes many timer-related problems, most known is the “need to move mouse in order to download in FireFox”. • x64 build - While the x64 port is still in an early stage regarding the functioning of the kernel, most of the generic compilation issues are resolved and necessary core functionality implemented. These efforts have been merged back into trunk, so that trunk can be compiled for x64 target. With the help of automatic builds, possible breakages can now quickly be detected and resolved. Don't expect it to boot to GUI though! The changelog <http://www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php/ ChangeLog-0.3.12> for 0.3.12 is also markedly different from previous releases, with an emphasis on conveying an understandable and concise summary of major changes in the release. Thus instead of duplicating that summary here, we invite you to peruse its contents and see what has been accomplished. Whilst the ReactOS team has still been attending many public events and conferences in various different countries, we’ve been out of the news due to what may appear as a quiet patch or a lull in activity. We hope this release will go some way to show that we’ve been busier than ever behind the scenes. _______________________________________________ Ros-announce mailing list Ros-announce(a)reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-announce

14 years, 2 months

PPC

by Mattia Tristo

Is there a future possible choice to port ReactOS to PPC machines? best regards Mattia T. -- ---------------------------------- Home Page : http://sites.google.com/site/homepagedimattiatristo/ Linux USer : 523480 (http://counter.li.org/) <http://counter.li.org/%29>

14 years, 3 months

Instalar Reactos desde PENDRIVE O MEMORIA USB

by gruista

Hola, ayer me pegué el santo día intentando instalar el Reactos en mi portatil Fujitsu Amilo LI1705. Ni flores, no hubo forma. Se quedaba pillao poco después de seleccionar la partición de mi disco duro. Todo eso desde el cd de instalación. Luego me volví loco buscando por internet si había alguna forma de crear un pendrive de instalación de Reactos. No encontré nada, e igualmente ni flores. Alguien sabría la forma de crear un pendrive que contuviese la instalación de Reactos??? Un saludo y gracias de antemano. Pepe

14 years, 4 months

lguest

by Enrico Weigelt

Hi folks, does ROS run under lguest ? I'm currently building an lguest-based VM (mass-)hosting service, and it would be a cool thing if ROS (as win32 alternative) could be easily run there. My business model includes free VMs on spare resources, which can be quickly deployed (within a minute), for testing and fun. I'd like to provide ROS as one of the preinstalled images, so it will get a bit more audience :) cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------

14 years, 4 months

Re: prob howto install driver

by Heiko L.

Hallo, I get a BSOD, if install ethernetdriver el90xnd5.sys. HW seen to be ok. (tested on knoppix) Whats going wrong? Heiko details: - ReactOS 0.4-SVN (Build 20100711-r47998) - install driver [1] [2] wget ftp://ftp.3com.com/pub/nic/3c90x/3c90x1.exe dosbox> 3c90x1.exe knoppix # scp $src/EL90XND5.SY_ $rosdir/TEMP ros> cd \TEMP ros> expand EL90XND5.SY_ el90xnd5.sys ros> copy el90xnd5.sys %windir%\system32 ## hardwareinstaller will this use as TODO. - ros: hardwareinstallation detected a new device: hardwareinstallation Ethenet controller [x] treiber von einer bestimmten Pos. installieren: [x] diesen Pfad ebenfalls durchsuchen: c:\temp Card seen recognized (print "3com 100Mbit" for 0.01s) -> bluescreen: A problem has been detected... Stop: 0x000001E (0cc0000005,0xf93c2f01,0xf93e9658,0x000000) el90xnd5.sys - Address F93c2f01 base at f93b000. dtaStamp 3b535836 - debug.log: IRQ11 fail I cannot get debuginfo over serial interface. Therefore i attached debug.log (part) only. $ egrep -i "^00|hal|err|ether|irq|3c" /var/tmp/debug.log > ros.deb.log-100723.3com.part Does exist another way to install network-driver? Howto add timestamp to debug.log? [1] http://www.reactos.org/wiki/Supported_Hardware/Network_cards - supported HW [2] http://www.reactos.org/archives/public/ros-general/2010-June/002586.html - minihowto (concept)

14 years, 4 months

Re: [ros-general] Ros-general Digest, Vol 73, Issue 2

by Olaf Siejka

Please open a bug report in bugzilla, tag the title with [PATCH], attach the patch and provide your name and email. Thanks in advance 2010/7/25 <ros-general-request(a)reactos.org> > Send Ros-general mailing list submissions to > ros-general(a)reactos.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-general > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > ros-general-request(a)reactos.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > ros-general-owner(a)reactos.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Ros-general digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. patch more.c ros-0.4 (Heiko L.) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:39:02 +0200 (CEST) > From: "Heiko L." <hlehmann(a)fh-lausitz.de> > Subject: [ros-general] patch more.c ros-0.4 > To: ros-general(a)reactos.org > Message-ID: > <49634.217.93.93.92.1280057942.squirrel(a)webmail.fh-lausitz.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > >>> prob 5: cmd "more" keybind "next page" > >>> - descr: "EACH" key binded to "next page", so "^C" "q" does not working > > solution: > - check if (wVirtualKeyCode=="q") > - s. patch ros-0.4.patch-100724.more_quit > > regards heiko > > > [1] > http://www2.fh-lausitz.de/launic/comp/ros/100724.ros.compile.rosbe.howto.txt > [3] > http://www.tutorials.de/c-c/279010-wie-mit-readconsole-strings-einlesen.html >

14 years, 5 months

patch more.c ros-0.4

by Heiko L.

>>> prob 5: cmd "more" keybind "next page" >>> - descr: "EACH" key binded to "next page", so "^C" "q" does not working solution: - check if (wVirtualKeyCode=="q") - s. patch ros-0.4.patch-100724.more_quit regards heiko [1] http://www2.fh-lausitz.de/launic/comp/ros/100724.ros.compile.rosbe.howto.txt [3] http://www.tutorials.de/c-c/279010-wie-mit-readconsole-strings-einlesen.html

14 years, 5 months

Invitation: Software Freedom Day at Cologne (Germany)

by Faustina Maria Essing

Hello good Day, my name is Faustina Essing and i visitthe linux-user-group at Cologne (Köln, Germany). Linux Workshop Kölnhttp://www.uni-koeln.de/themen/linux We are enthousiast to all free and opensource software and at Software Freedom Day at 18. september 2010 weare going to organize an interesting event and celebrate this day atCologne (Köln). For this event we would like to producean exciting agenda (Tagesprogramm) and we would like to invitesomeone of ReactOS and ask politely if someone of you would like tospeech about the interesting ReactOS-Project on our Software FreedomDay Event. Software Freedom Day Köln http://www.koelnerlinuxtreffen.de Kind regards from Cologne Faustina Essing

14 years, 5 months

prob howto install driver

by Heiko L.

Hallo, I trial to install network-driver. Problem: hardware-assistent seen does not work. (see 3.) (i have tried translate to en, org: ger) Whats going wrong? Does exist another way? (Link) regards Heiko 3.11, bootcd-47788 ---------------------------------------------- 1. command seen cannot execute dos-exec ros: C:\TEMP> 3c90x1.exe The instruction at "0x7800202" referenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory c ould not be "read". -> workaround: debian>dosbox ---------------------------------------------- 2. my minihowto install network-driver (part) debi # cd dos debi # wget ftp://ftp.3com.com/pub/nic/3c90x/3c90x1.exe dosbox> 3c90x1.exe knoppix # scp $src/EL90XND5.SY_ $rosdir/TEMP ros> expand EL90XND5.SY_ el90xnd5.sys ros> copy el90xnd5.sys %windir%\system32\drivers ros> control -> system -> hardware [1] http://www.reactos.org/wiki/Supported_Hardware/Network_cards ---------------------------------------------- 3. ros install driver ger: ---- control -> system -> hardware | v ... HW-Assistent Installierte HW: Ein neues Geraet hinzufuegen , .... | v Wie wollen Sie den Assistenten fortsetzen? ( ) Automatisch nach neuer HW suchen ... (empfohlen) ( ) Manuell aus der Liste....(erwitert) - test 1 auto Die Suche ist nach 10 Min. noch nicht weiter... fortschrittsbalken: 0% - test 2 man egal was man auswaehlt: button <weiter> bleibt inaktiv ---------------------------------------------- eng: --- HW-Assistent What you want....? ( ) automaticly...(recommended) ( ) manually... -> test 1 auto nothing to do...progressbar: 0% -> test 2 man click one of these entries result: button <next> inactive anymore ----------------------------------------------

14 years, 6 months

BLIT/BLID

by Mario Frank

Hello, everyone. I am testing ReactOS for a few months and I am of the opinion that it is a really interesting Project. I am also here to anounce something. I saw on the homepage thay the ReactOS Team was present at CLD. Since I am Member of upLUG (Potsdam Linux User Group), I would like to forward a request. The 7. BLIT (BLID - Brandenburg Linux Info Day) will take place at Griebnitzsee (Potsdam/Berlin) on 6. of November and there is a possibility to present ReactOS on the BLID. If you are interested to come, you can find information on www.*blit*.org. But I have to warnyou , the website is german and I didn't find a button for changing the language. sincerly, Eladrion

14 years, 6 months

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