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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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Positions
by Aleksey Bragin 27 Dec '09

27 Dec '09

Hi, I have two concerns with the current positions in ReactOS: 1. what is the situation with Release Engineers currently? For the last few releases, Colin was de-facto the only one doing all release- related work. Wiki page states Z98 as a release engineer. Z98 - are you still available for this position, or should we try to get someone else to help Colin? 2. Klemens Friedl unfortunately has not been available for quite a long time, really long time. He informed me about it, so it's fine, and sometime in future he is going to get back to ReactOS hopefully. But, as of now, I think he can't hold the Web Coordinator position. Should we move this to someone else who is active now, like Colin or Danny if they have time? Opinions are appreciated. WBR, Aleksey Bragin.

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ReactOS 0.3.11 Released
by Ged Murphy 19 Dec '09

19 Dec '09

The ReactOS team is proud to announce the release of ReactOS 0.3.11. This release has been delayed by quite some time due to various blocker bugs which manifested each time we tried to release. A lot of time has gone into hunting down these bugs and various steps have been taken to try to ensure we don't hit this problem again. This isn't to say we don't have a lot of new and exciting features in this release. Two of which stand out are the huge changes to the Memory Manager and another leap forward for the sound stack It's difficult to sum up all of the changes which have taken place in the memory manager short of saying it's been almost a total rewrite. These changes have not only brought a much more stable and reliable component, but also now includes support for ARM processors. ARM memory management units (MMU's) are handled in an entirely different manner than that of x86 and x86-64 MMU's, however the ARM Mm component has been written alongside the x86 component with various areas sharing code when possible. Further to this, these changes bring much improved compatibility with WinDbg. WinDbg support is now at a level where the majority of everyday features are working and tasks which previously seemed so distant using WinDbg, such as stepping through the kernel, listing process threads or dynamically editing memory are now working. We're now at a level where having PDB's (Microsoft's debugging symbols) would make debugging the reactos kernel a similar experience to debugging the Windows kernel, with the added advantage of source mode. For the technically inquisitive, here <http://www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php/ChangeLog-0.3.11#MM> are the Mm changes in this release The sound stack continues to see extensive work throughout all areas. This release brings with it support for wave recording and mixer support such as volume level adjustment and muting. Improved core component compatibility with WinXP means that more components now run within Windows and goes some way to showing the level of compatibility the sound stack is now achieving. Compatibility and stability changes have been continuing throughout the entire operating system with a great deal of fixes coming from the Wine test framework used to ensure application interface compatibility. As this is the 0.3.11 release, we felt a certain degree of nostalgia towards 'Windows 3.11 for workgroups' and added a fun easter egg in tribute. See if you can spot it, the older generation will surely have no problems Along with the rest of the 0.3 series, this release is still considered alpha quality software so it may not run all your apps or run on your hardware. Changes summary A detailed consolidation of all changes can be found in the changelog <http://www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php/ChangeLog-0.3.11> . A sum up of some of the more important changes is as follows: * A rewrite of the kdcom kernelmode library which is now much more compatible with the Microsoft version. This allows for improved built-in support for WinDbg * Support for delay loaded dlls has been added in our build tools, providing delay loading functionality for our shipped libraries * Support for Chinese and Korean fonts has now been added * A new handler has been written for setting and getting system wide parameters (see SystemParametersInfo API), now making it much more complete and compatible with the Windows implementation * A selection of application compatibility improvements can now been seen, including Opera, Open Office, Firefox 3.5, VLC1.1 and skype * For fun, a new Spider Solitaire application has been added * Synchronization of most of the Wine usermode DLLs and some Win32 subsystem code shared with Wine VirtualBox install note A bug has surfaced meaning that installing ReactOS in VirtualBox will result in a hang when loading the USB driver, unless the VM has 256Mb RAM or more. To counteract this, either raise the RAM from the default 192Mb or disable the USB device. We have created a preloaded VirtualBox VM for download incorporating this workaround. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

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Call for participation to the "Alt-OS" devroom at FOSDEM
by François Revol 11 Dec '09

11 Dec '09

During the previous edition of the Free and Open Source Software Developer's European Meeting (FOSDEM) <http://fosdem.org/>, several alternative FOSS Operating System projects (Haiku <http://haiku-os.org/>, ReactOS <http://www.reactos.org/>) shared booths, but there were discussions about going beyond presenting each projects on its own, and instead seek cooperation. Recently, at the Google Summer of Code mentor summit, other OS projects gathered and formed the Rosetta OS group <http://code.google.com/p/rosetta-os/> to work on driver sharing. This year, the FOSDEM (in Brussels, 6-7th February 2010) will host the "Alt-OS" devroom on sunday from 9:00 to 17:00, organized by members of the Rosetta OS project. This devroom is meant as a place for Free and OpenSource Alternative Operating System projects to share ideas and work on topics like: * distinguishing design and features, * device drivers and how to share them, * sharing code for internal components, * internal usage of other FOSS projects to build upon, * application portability, * interoperability, * file formats, * extended attributes... We are interested to hear about your OS projects, how they are designed, and what they could eventually share for other projects' benefit. In addition to all FOSS OS projects, any application project that is seeking new target platforms is invited. Featured projects will include participants from the Rosetta OS project which charter <http://code.google.com/p/rosetta-os/wiki/RosettaOSCharter> matches our devroom goal. As time allows, we are also interested in transversal subjects in cooperation with other devrooms. As an example, possible topics could include: * unusual package management with the Crossdistro room, * standardization of GUI elements and behavior with the Crossdesktop devroom, * scalability with the Embedded devroom, * ways in which BSD drivers were reused in your project, * concerns about porting Java, * Gallium3D port progress reports... The format of the talks can vary, from 45min large speech to 15 min general project presentation, or hand-on hacking session. = Proposals = Proposals should be sent to François Revol by mail: revol(a)free.fr Your proposal should include: * duration (in 15 minute blocks -- please stick with that granularity, as it will make the schedule somewhat easier to follow for visitors), * activity title (please try to be descriptive, there are ~250 talks at FOSDEM during the week-end ;)), * a short abstract (1-2 paragraphs), * a longer description if appropriate, * optionally a list of links to the project website or similar * for each speaker: * the speaker's real name, * a short overview of her bio in a couple of lines, * optionally also a longer bio, * optionally a picture (please send it to us as 128x128 PNG), * optionally links to her website, blog, ... Plain-text format is preferred by the FOSDEM team, it makes their life easier, something like: ------------------ John Doe john.doe(a)example.org John is currently working as a freelancer and spends most of his free time contributing to various opensource projects, most prominently on libjohndoe. John currently lives in England with his wife, 2 kids and a bunch of kitten. He loves spending his time walking around in the woods, and of course kitten. He has a masters degree in kitten science, which helps him a lot with coding. blog: http://johndoe.example.org/blog/ attached: john_doe.png ------------------ = Deadline = The deadline for submissions is 2009-12-25, please try to stick to it. Acceptance notification on 2009-12-31. = Organization = The room provided by the FOSDEM team has: * room number AW1.105 with 48 seats, * a video projector with VGA cable, * wireless internet. We will try to provide a wifi router with ethernet ports for demonstrations since we know many projects do not have functional wifi drivers yet. We will also try to provide a laptop to load your slides on if you can't use your own machine. It is advised to see with your project supporting associations for possible reimbursement of travel and hosting cost, since the FOSDEM team cannot help there. Attendance is free however. Also remember to check other devroom calls as well as the call for lightning talks <http://fosdem.org/2010/call_for_lightningtalks>, for subjects that might not fit our topics of interest. = Projected schedule = 9:00 Welcome (15min) 9:15 "Rosetta OS" project morning project presentations, design... afternoon more projects, workshops... 16:45 Closing (15min)

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possible FOSDEM shared non-linux devroom
by François Revol 21 Nov '09

21 Nov '09

Hi, as last year, I'm trying to organize a shared non-linux devroom at FOSDEM, to exchange on subjects like cross-platform drivers, porting woes... We didn't get it last year, but this year the FOSDEM team wants to organize a "distro miniconf" and force them to share devrooms instead of each having their own, to free rooms to other projects. I believe it should be possible either as part of the distro summit, or outside. If you want to participate in a non-linux devroom make sure you fill the form: http://fosdem.org/2010/call_for_developer_rooms quoting you would like to be part of a "non-linux" devroom, either as part of the distro ones or separately. If enough non-linux projects request a devroom maybe we'll get one... Here is what I filled, you should probably reuse the name: --- * devroom name: Alt-OS (Anything-but-Linux-disTro Operating System) * devroom description: Talks and workshops about alternative (non Linux based) opensource operating systems, in the purpose of sharing experience on application ports, common driver development and design differences. Possible talks include : - POSIX & *nix compatibility coverage of alternative OSes (example from Haiku...) - *nix app porting tricks (autoconf, ...) - OSSv4 port considerations - status of the NetSurf port to Haiku Possible workshops include : - porting a command line application to Haiku - porting a FreeBSD network driver to Haiku - native hello world GUI application on Haiku * devroom related URLs: http://www.haiku-os.org/ http://groups.google.com/group/rosetta-os?pli=1 http://opensound.com/ http://netsurf-browser.org/ * comments/remarks: It could either be done as part of the distro miniconf, or as a separate room. We would actually welcome discussions with distro projects too, on subjects like package management for example. Possible projects interested in joining in: RTEMS http://www.rtems.com/ Minix http://www.minix3.org/ AROS http://aros.org/ ReactOS http://www.reactos.org/fr/index.html Syllable http://web.syllable.org/pages/index.html Other participants in the Rosetta OS (discussion group about non-linux FOSS OSes) http://groups.google.com/group/rosetta-os?pli=1 --- I'd suggest you also fill the form to show the orga how much demand there is for it. We'll get an answer by 2009-11-29. You can also ask for a booth: http://fosdem.org/2010/call_for_stands I just sent the Haiku request. The general call for participation: http://fosdem.org/2010/call_for_participation Note the deadline is november 22nd, so be quick! François.

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Re: [ros-general] Microsoft PDC
by Ged Murphy 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

This starts on Monday. So nobody's going?? Shocker .... I'll have to drink on my own then. Ged. From: Ged Murphy [mailto:gedmurphy@gmail.com] Sent: 27 October 2009 15:41 To: 'ReactOS Development List'; 'ReactOS General List' Subject: Microsoft PDC I'll be attending this year's Microsoft PDC in Los Angeles and I should be there between 16th November and 20th November. If anyone else is going and wants to meet up for a chat at the conference or a beer in the evening drop me a mail. Cheers, Ged.

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Informativa trattamento dati
by Apisgroup 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

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Microsoft PDC
by Ged Murphy 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

I'll be attending this year's Microsoft PDC in Los Angeles and I should be there between 16th November and 20th November. If anyone else is going and wants to meet up for a chat at the conference or a beer in the evening drop me a mail. Cheers, Ged.

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freeldr.sys not found
by J Bickhard 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

I just got ReactOS installed on my 300MHz AMD K4 with two 1.2 gigabyte hard drives previously holding MS-DOS 6.0. After the installation sucessfully completed (i thought), I booted up, and it said "FREELDR.SYS NOT FOUND" "Press any key" What should I do? I read somewhere that this is caused by a messed-up MBR, but I have no idea how to clean it. Help? I would like to test compatibility and stuff, but I can't if I don't get this working in the first place! Jake (dats me)

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