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Preliminary questions before install
by waltdnes＠waltdnes.org 14 Feb '16

14 Feb '16

Hi all; I've ordered a machine from Dell, scheduled to arrive Feb 22, which will be my "playground" machine, that I can fool around on, without worrying about losing data. I don't expect the built-in network interface to work with ReactOS, but the machine will have 3 expansion slots. I may also be playing around with Minix 3.3 on the machine. With that in mind, here are a few questions... 1) The Intel Pro/100 and Realtek-8139-chipset cards appear to be the only cards supported by *BOTH* ReactOS and Minix 3.3. They're older chipsets. Anyone know where I can order one of those cards (presumably PCI)? Or even better, a physical store in Toronto that has them? 2) What's the best setup for multi-boot, involving ReactOS? Can ReactOS boot another OS? 3) For a few extra dollars, I went and got the machine with 8 gigs of RAM and a 1 terabyte drive. What's the recommended hard drive install layout? I haven't used Windows at home for a dozen years. Back then, I'd put the OS on C:\ and data+programs on D:\ and the swapfile on E:\ I retired in early 2011, and the workplace was using Windows XP back then, so my Windows skills are rather rusty. 4) Does ReactOS work better with DVI or VGA video input? My LCD monitor has both inputs, and the Dell will have both outputs. -- Walter Dnes <waltdnes(a)waltdnes.org>

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Improve ISO labels for recognition from libosinfo
by Bastián Díaz 11 Sep '15

11 Sep '15

Hello, I opened this thread to ask ReactOS developers if can improve the iso labels in the generation of new installation disks Improving iso labels, help ReactOS be recognized by the library "libosinfo" and enhance the creation of virtual machines (eg optimizing the hardware profile). See: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libosinfo/2015-September/msg00008.html Thank you. -- Bastián Díaz

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Disk partitioning
by MegaBrutal 19 Jun '15

19 Jun '15

Hi, I attached a totally blank hard disk image to ReactOS, and I'd like to partition & format it. As I see, diskmgmt.msc is not available under ReactOS, and diskpart seems to be a stub, so I have no way to partition it under ReactOS, without installing 3rd party software, right? Probably I'm missing something. MegaBrutal

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Can't format blank floppy
by MegaBrutal 18 Jun '15

18 Jun '15

Hi, I installed ReactOS on a KVM virtual machine from image bootcd-68169-rel.iso. I attached a blank floppy disk to the VM and tried to format it: format A: I got an error message: „ERROR_UNRECOGNIZED_VOLUME - The volume does not contain a recognized file system. Please make sure that all required file system drivers are loaded and that the volume is not corrupted.” Of course it does not have a recognized file system, as it does not have any file system yet. It's a totally blank floppy image, and I want to create a file system on it just now. I don't know why I get this error. Most likely this is a bug. I just thought to tell you about it. MegaBrutal

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Open Source Software Strategy 2014-2017 - European Commission - have to find out more if it is interesting and how to contribute?
by Jürgen Wippler 30 Mar '15

30 Mar '15

Open Source Software Strategy 2014-2017 - DIGIT | | | | | | | | | Open Source Software Strategy 2014-2017 - DIGITEuropean Commission - Directorate-General for Informatics - Open Source Software Strategy 2014-2017 | | | | Auf ec.europa.eu anzeigen | Vorschau nach Yahoo | | | | | 1. The Commission shall continue to adopt formally, through the Product Management procedure, the use of OSS technologies and products. 2. The Commission shall ensure a level playing field for open source software and demonstrate an active and fair consideration of using open source software – taking account of the total cost of ownership of the solution. 3. For all future IT developments, the Commission shall promote the use of products that support recognised, well-documented and preferably open technical specifications that can be freely adopted, implemented and extended. Interoperability is a critical issue for the Commission, and use of well-established standards is a key factor to achieve it. 4. For the internal development of new information systems, in particular where deployment is foreseen by third parties outside the EC infrastructure, OSS shall be the preferred choice and used whenever possible. 5. The Commission shall further clarify the legal context around the internal use of OSS and make this clarification available to interested parties. The main topics to be addressed include: licensing schemes, Intellectual Property Rights, equal opportunities in the context of procurement and participation in OSS communities. 6. The Commission shall further develop guidelines and best practices allowing the setup of OSS and mixed solutions covering the full set of professional services, including deployment of OSS solutions in its data centres at the same level of service as the proprietary ones. 7. The Commission shall continue to develop and adopt best practice and tools emerging from OSS communities while applying state-of-the-art governance practices, particularly in the domain of security. In addition, the EC will facilitate and promote the creation of communities for those OSS products released by the Commission and facilitate participation in external OSS communities. 8. OSS plays an important role in e-Government projects and shall be therefore considered within the framework of these activities. 9. The collaboration between Commission teams in charge of the internal and external OSS strategies shall be further enhanced in order to achieve convergence, in particular through alignment with and reuse of validated solutions produced by the ISA programme. 10. The ICT ecosystem is extremely dynamic, innovative, and constantly evolving; as such it impacts many areas of the Commission's policies. Within this context, DIGIT shall continue to play an active role in promoting partnerships focusing on OSS between the European Institutions and other stakeholders. Joinup | Joinup Günther Oettinger, Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society "I am fully committed to making full use of digital technologies to drive public sector modernisation and promote greater transparency, more participation, better interoperability and more openness in the way we work with our stakeholders" | | | | | | | | | | | Joinup | JoinupJoinUp is an initiative by the European Commission to help people who work for public administrations to share knowledge and experiences on e-Government topics a... | | | | Auf joinup.ec.europ... anzeigen | Vorschau nach Yahoo | | | | |

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Some issues for ReactOS v66721...
by daniel silva ferreira bruno 15 Mar '15

15 Mar '15

Hi, staff of ReactOS. I am Daniel Bruno, an user of ReactOS. I used ReactOS v66721 and found the following issues with it: 1- Software 'Dev-Cpp 5.9.2 TDM-GCC 4.8.1 Setup.exe' doesn't install, because it tries to unpack but a ReactOS System Error occurs and a blue screen appears (Memory Management type!)... The link for the software of this issue is: http://sourceforge.net/projects/orwelldevcpp/files/Setup%20Releases/ . Thanks for any help. Best Regards, Daniel Bruno.

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Security issue on ReactOS.org website
by Pierre Schweitzer 21 Jan '15

21 Jan '15

Dear all, Just to make sure you read it: https://www.reactos.org/node/928 The SVN accounts are not affected. Cheers, -- Pierre Schweitzer <pierre at reactos.org> System & Network Administrator Senior Kernel Developer ReactOS Deutschland e.V.

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Downtime tomorrow at noon CET
by Pierre Schweitzer 14 Jan '15

14 Jan '15

Dear all, Due to a hard disk dying, we'll attempt to anticipate its total death tomorrow at noon CET to change it before it quits working. It is a disk in one of our hypervisor. The following services will be hit: -> ReactOS main website -> Jira/Fisheye -> Main DNS server -> ReactOS community website Sorry for the caused inconvenience. With my best regards, -- Pierre Schweitzer <pierre at reactos.org> System & Network Administrator Senior Kernel Developer ReactOS Deutschland e.V.

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ReactOS at FOSDEM
by Pierre Schweitzer 04 Jan '15

04 Jan '15

Dear all, ReactOS will be present this year at FOSDEM, in Brussels, on the 31st of Jan & the 1st of Feb. More information at: https://fosdem.org/2015/ We will have a stand so that you can come and meet the people behind ReactOS! We will dispatch more information about the stand & its location when we have them. We're looking forward to seeing you at Brussels! Cheers, -- Pierre Schweitzer <pierre at reactos.org> System & Network Administrator Senior Kernel Developer ReactOS Deutschland e.V.

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Questions
by Cact25＠aol.com 18 Dec '14

18 Dec '14

How do I submit a question? I would like to see what the OS GUI looks like and how closely it follows the XP GUI. I think a good feature would be the ability to import the XP registry so all of the programs would not have to be reinstalled. Thanks. Jim Kirwan

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