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First NT6+ application support in ReactOS

by Colin Finck

Hi all! Starting with build 0.4.8-dev-655-g63a3a2c, ReactOS has first support for NT6+ applications (aka programs written for Windows Vista, Windows 7, etc.). Please retest such applications under ReactOS! As newer Windows APIs are still missing in ReactOS, I would be surprised if a high number of NT6+ applications suddenly works. However, many applications may just be compiled by a new Visual Studio without using any modern APIs. They could work now. My "Hello World" compiled by VS 2017 v141 toolchain printed many messages about missing apiset DLLs in the debug log, but otherwise works well. So the next step should obviously be finishing and integrating Mark's work on the apiset DLLs in https://github.com/learn-more/reactos/commits/apisets But interestingly, the build produced by the v141_xp toolchain also looks for these apiset DLLs. Therefore, it would be possible that an application expects a full NT6 system when finding them. Consequently, application compatibility could be compromised if we just dump all apiset DLLs into ReactOS, applications now expect NT6, but the OS continues to behave like NT5 by default. This is why I suggest detecting an NT6+ application in ntdll to have it auto-apply a shim that lets ReactOS behave like an NT6 OS. The apiset DLLs should only be available in this mode, but not for the NT5 personality of ReactOS. Let's not import the apisets before the ntdll shim work is done in order to preserve our existing application compatibility. Cheers, Colin

6 years, 11 months

Hmmm...

by oldman

Now, where Should I turn mailing list-wise or #IRC-wise for answers folks? On 10/11/2017 3:53 PM, fc wrote: > > What Web server do you folks like? > > I'm considering *Abyss Web Server X1/X2 * > > My needs are: > > . running ASP/ASPX > . mime support for .mp4 > . .net 2.0-4.0 > . a C# SOAP service. > . SQL Server (and possibly PostgreSQL) as the DB. > > Thank you! The Forum is a better place to ask questions, because it is more active than this mailing list! Never used IRC, so I do not know how active the general IRC is, but the one used by the developers receives more attention. I have had nginx working in real hardware in the past, but I would not rely upon it running smoothly and consistently! You could also try: http://www.xgarreau.org/zazouminiwebserver/en/ You will be very lucky if you can run all in your list! .net is problematic! I think that it currently has issues. PostgreSQL will not even install. But you may be more lucky with Microsoft's SQL server. I have no idea about others in your list, you will need to test them! oldman.

7 years, 2 months

4.5 a PRO (LiveCD size)

by fc

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 ========== 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.

7 years, 2 months

New to development

by Nimit Bhardwaj

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

7 years, 2 months

ReactOS Repository migrated to GitHub

by Colin Finck

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

7 years, 2 months

RV: This month we review an open source operating system based on the best Windows NT design principles!

by Javier Fernández Arroyo

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7 years, 6 months

OpenAwards: Last 24 hours to cast votes for ReactOS!

by victor martinez

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!

7 years, 6 months

ReactOS is the MOST VOTED project in the "Best IT Community" category in the #OpenAwards

by victor martinez

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

7 years, 7 months

Gsoc Participation

by pmairo.polytechvalor＠gmail.com

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

7 years, 8 months

Fwd: GSoC Mentor

by Muhammad abdul Rehman

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

7 years, 8 months

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