You have to love the fact that the LiveCD for 4.5 only takes up 200k
while Linux distributions are now over 2GB in several cases.
Using on 98MB of RAM out of the box is a plus too.
My Platform
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Running the 4.5 Alpha LiveCD in Oracle VirtualBox
Allocating 2GB of RAM and 2.54 GB disk space,
on an i7 with 16 GB of RAM.
Hello, I am Nimit Bhardwaj, I am a 3rd year student of computer science and
engineering, I am well versed with C and C++ which are I think required for
the development of ReactOS, I am also well known of the basic concepts of
operating system, data structure and algorithms, and also am a coder who
likes to do competitive programming, I cloned the source of ReactOS from
github(which I came to know that it was put there recently, I think I am
lucky of it :-) ) and compiled to create the .iso successfully, now I want
to do contribution in development, I want apply my learned concepts to use,
so I wanted some help, where to start, what else I need to know.
Thank you
Nimit Bhardwaj
National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur
Today, the ReactOS Source Code has been migrated from a central
Subversion instance to a decentralized Git repository. Together with
that, ReactOS joins the list of projects using the popular GitHub
service for developing software: https://github.com/reactos/reactos
We expect that this move greatly improves the way we collaborate on
ReactOS development and reduces the barriers for newcomers. Just fork
our repository on GitHub, commit your changes and send us a Pull Request!
Migrating a source code history of more than 20 years that had seen
multiple version control systems was not a straightforward task.
Deciding on a decentralized version control system has not been either.
First discussions already started back in 2009, when neither Git nor
Mercurial were able to fully convert a large SVN repository like ours
and Git’s Windows support was still neglected. Things improved massively
over the years, with GitHub and Git for Windows emerging as reliable
tools for software development. But the ReactOS Project still took
advantage of some Subversion features, so only a smooth migration using
a two-way SVN-Git mirror was attempted in 2016. This failed miserably,
however important lessons were learned for a future complete migration
to Git. The tipping point was reached in early 2017 when a majority of
ReactOS developers spoke out in favor of moving to Git. Finally, the
ReactOS Hackfest in August offered a forum to try out things and discuss
every little detail of the planned migration. And this is what got us
here today!
The development documentation is still in the process of being rewritten
to account for the Git migration. You may currently find outdated
information here and there. However, most of that is on the Wiki, so you
are more than welcome to help us!
The SVN Repository has been turned read-only and will be kept online for
a while at the last revision r76032. Our Git mirror now mirrors the
GitHub repository. If you have already been using our old Git mirror,
please note that you have to do a fresh clone of our new repository
(from either GitHub or the mirror) as the old and new ones are incompatible.
JIRA continues to be used for bug tracking, BuildBot for continuous
integration, and FishEye as a code browser.
I would like to thank all the people who have helped with this
migration, be it on IRC, the mailing lists or at the Hackfest! Special
thanks also go to the KDE Project for their excellent
svn-all-fast-export tool that was used for the conversion. If you are
ever in a similar situation, have a look at my conversion scripts as
well as the Git helpers for our infrastructure.
Colin Finck
Hi guys!
We made it!
But we need your help to be in the top 5! Just 24 hours to do it!
ReactOS has been selected as one of the most important projects in two different categories in the OpenAwards, an international opensource event based in Madrid. The 5 most voted will be widely announced, PRed, and finally one of them will be selected as a winner. The exposure is a need for us, you know that, so please help us by casting a vote. Takes just a second.
Categories are:
- Best Opensource Community: https://a.cstmapp.com/p/18092?fromgroup=1#
<https://a.cstmapp.com/p/18092?fromgroup=1#>
- Most innovative project: https://a.cstmapp.com/p/18085?fromgroup=1
Instructions:
- Find ReactOS in each link.
- Click in the button which says "Votar" (Vote) next to it.
- It asks for a Name, Surname, an a valid email. Please confirm the vote!.
- Done.
I'm sure we can push ReactOS to the top!
Let's surprise them with our voting boost!
Congrats Community!
You did it!!
Thanks to your votes casted, ReactOS is finalist in the "Best IT Community" category. Even more! ReactOS was the MOST VOTED project in such category!
https://a.cstmapp.com/p/18092?fromgroup=1
ReactOS: 229 votes
2nd. KeepCoding: 190 votes
As you may know, ReactOS was also trying to be finalist as the "Best Innovative project". We were literally just ONE vote away to be one of the five finalists. 202 casted, 203 needed.
https://a.cstmapp.com/entries/18085/sort:votes/direction:desc
So even if we weren't finalist it in this category I want to thank in name of the ReactOS project all your help, votes, and support to make it possible.
Our strategy of waiting until last minute helped us to overtake and surprise really big and amazing projects as the Drupal Association, Geo developers or gvSig, but also projects supported/created by well stablished companies and public governments.
Thanks Community! We'll keep you updated! More info soon as a blogpost!
Víctor Martinez Calvo
ReactOS PR & Product strategy coordinator
Hello my name is Paul Mairo, I hope it is not too late but I am really interested in participating to Gsoc and I think I found a project which fits to me cause since I was a child I had always dreamt about
A free version of Windows and that is the occasion for me to express myself. Despite the fact that I am not really a great developper, I am very motivated and I hope that you will accept my participation, my project is about Bluetooth support on ReactOS.
P.S : My native language is french but I am actually attending English courses to improve my level.
Provenance : Courrier pour Windows 10
Hello guys,
I sent this email before on the development mailing list. I am forwarding
this on the general mailing list. I want to apply for GSoC and want to do
it with ReactOs.
I will be glad if someone guide me on possible mentorship for this project.
Additional to projects mentioned below, I will like to learn on other
possible projects as well. The deadline is near and I want to submit the
proposal before that.
Regards,
Abdul Rehman
---------- Forwarded meRos-dev(a)reactos.orgssage ----------
From: Muhammad abdul Rehman <rehman.12390(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 7:44 AM
Subject: GSoC Mentor
To:
Hello everyone,
I am a Masters student and want to do the GSoC with this organization this
summer. I have gone through the list and found some projects domain
interesting but I couldn't research in the depth of the project due to
resource and time constraint at the moment.
I have some professional background in working with embedded software
development (mostly C programming), networking stacks and an RTOS porting.
Did some work in Linux development as well. I will be thankful if someone
can guide me chose the best suitable project that is beneficial for myself
and the organization at the same time. Currently, I have a look at
following projects:
Bluetooth Stack
Integrating SMB into ReactOS
Kernel mode test suite
WebKit-based MSHTML implementation
Support for the GPT Partitioning Scheme
Taskbar Shell extensions
If someone is interested in mentoring anyone of the above project, I will
be happy to talk more on that and submit a timely proposal.
Thanks a lot and best regards,
--
M Abdul Rehman
--
M Abdul Rehman
After some strike related problems we lost one of our supporters @
Chemnitzer Linux Tage (https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2017/de)
SO if someone wants to join. Here we are, waiting for ya. Start is on
THIS saturday and ending is THIS sunday evening.
Yes, quite a bit early I ask here, but... sadly the problems showed up
today. We might even have a hotel room left if our hotel does not cancel
it that close to booking date. Otherwise we find a way, too.
So, first come first served. Sell your soul/come to us ^^