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Here is a short and sweet draft of a ReactOS newsletter for the month of July- comments and suggestions are more than welcome.

by Wierd Wierd

ReactOS Newsletter, July 2004 ReactOS is an Open Source project licensed under the GNU General Public License, which aims at the high mark of being a commercially viable alternative for markets currently using versions of Microsoft Windows(tm) based on the NT kernel, such as Windows NT 4, Windows 2000, and Windows XP, with full application and driver support. While development of Reactos is still in its early stages, great amounts of effort have been poured into the project over the past month. Art Yerks and Alex Ionesco have been diligently working on ironing out all the snags with their TCP/IP implementation, and with several other networking related tasks. While it is still uncertain when truly functional networking will be working under ReactOS, the work done this month has brought that goal tangibly closer. Another boon this month was Structured Exception Handling. While not terribly interesting to most users, it is an important feature of a stable NT based kernel, which provides a means to trap exception faults, and prevent them from causing other problems for the host. S.E.H is a big step toward a functionally stable environment within ReactOS. While work continues, ReactOS now has a crude, but serviceable S.E.H implementation. Other things that have received attention this month are preliminary sound card support, a performance rewrite of the FAT file system driver, fixes for removable media support, and the beginnings of porting WINE's DirectX implementation, in addition to a multitude of compatibility and bug fixes. For more information, please visit the ReactOS homepage at HTTP://WWW.ReactOS.COM . Feel free to visit us on our FreeNode IRC channel, #Reactos, or on our mailing lists. We look forward to hearing from you! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

20 years, 1 month

Linux World in Germany

by Steven Edwards

Hello, I need to know who all is planning on comming to LinuxWorld.de so I can get us passes. We are limited to three exhibitor passes for free and any extra are 15 Euros I think so if you are going to come give me your name now. Seeing as how we only have a small space I dont want our booth to overflow or anything so maybe you just want to get a visitors pass and stop by and say hi. At the last LinuxWorld is was just myself and GvG so I hope that more will come this time. We only have two chairs as well so if there is going to be more of us showing up then we will have to trade off. The list is Me (99% sure), GvG, KJK:Hyperion, w3seek and ? Thanks Steven __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

20 years, 1 month

Re: ROS

by Stephen Hodges

20 years, 1 month

Crash report

by jh

ReactOS-core-20040724 Advent laptop - 850 MHz Pentium 3 - 320 Mb ram Having down-loaded the latest snapshot, I was having a look around this version for the first time. >From the start button I had gone into, Browse Files - Drives - C - Program Files - Amaya. From there, with all the pop-up windows still open, I moved the mouse to the rosexplorer item at the top of the first pop-up window from the start button, and click on it. ros then crashed to the blue screen, with these error messages: Bug detected (code 1e param 0 0 0 0) KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED Page Fault Exception: 14(2) Processor: 0 CS:EIP 8:c00012db <ntoskrnl.exe: 12db> cr2 f000ff83 cr3 1317c000 Proc: c1570768 Pid: 4 <csrss> Thrd: c15c6e08 Tid: 26 DS 10 ES 10 FS 30 GS 10 EAX: 00000001 EBX: 00000000 ECX: f000ff83 EDX: c15c6948 EBP: deacedbc ESI: 00c10eb0 ESP: deaced3c EDI: deacef84 EFLAGS: 00010292 kESP deaced3c kernel stack base deacc000 Frames: <hal.dll: 32c6> <win32k.sys: 1323e> <win32k.sys: 133f4> <win32k.sys: 1c701> <win32k.sys: 1ccdc> <win32k.sys: 1d005> <ntoskrnl.exe: 361d> <77E6FC5B> I have have repeated the moves above, this time rosexplorer appeared (I may have clicked on a empty part of the desktop window), and ros crashed again, but this time there was no blue screen and no error message. All there was, was a screen with one quarter green with vertical lines and the other three quarters were red with horizontal lines which changed to squares then back to lines, looping constantly between the two (lines then squares). Hope this can be of some help. Regards, jh

20 years, 1 month

ROSLive CD - trial run

by Wesley Parish

FWIW, I burnt the ROSLive CD while in Win98SE, and then had a look at it. I could fire up the cmd.exe file while in Win98 and it ran and did everything I asked it to. A bit bare - I'll try to roll my own LiveCD with a few apps I need like AbiWord, emacs, etc. Any caveats, any warnings, any ideas, any suggestions? (I.e., is there a specified layout for files/directories? Or do they go any old where?) Very impressive - now I'll have to grab some old unused machine and test it out on that. Wesley Parish "Sharpened hands are happy hands. "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press

20 years, 2 months

ReactOS 0.3.0 TODO

by Steven Edwards

Hello All, Well Arty and Alex along with a lot of help from others have networking almost to a usable state. So far the wish/feature list includes: - OpenOffice - FireFox - IRC - CVS - SEH (done?) Lets get some ideas of other things that need to be fixed or implemented. Sound support is going to be a post 0.3.0 bug for me as I dont have the time or knowlege to try and fix winmm/mmdrv. If you want to see sound on 0.3.0 you need to step up to the plate. Thanks Steven __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

20 years, 2 months

RE: [ros-general] ReactOS 0.3.0 TODO

by Colin Burn

For what its worth... I think getting a single networking app, such as cvs, running is sufficient to warrant a release. Other apps will follow and I think holding back until networking is complete is a waste of time. Getting some form of networking working should generate interest in the project and may get those illusive new developers to join in. Col

20 years, 2 months

I'm back

by Robert Köpferl

One month without one's computer connected to the telecosmos. That's hard. There are of course these public internet access but you know ... webmail + 6 Mailinglists or downloading and building software... that's not possible. So, since I am available again, Steven, Ge and Co. I am now able to overtake the build job.

20 years, 2 months

0.2.3-RELEASE slightly delayed

by Ge van Geldorp

0.2.3-RELEASE was supposed to hit SourceForge today, but an issue has come up which must be resolved first. Expect the release to take place beginning of this week. Gé van Geldorp.

20 years, 2 months

ReactOS Booth at Linux World De

by Steven Edwards

Hi, Well its done. We have our spot. I need a copy of the Logo we want to use in GIF format as well as firm commits on who is going to be there. At the last LinuxWorld I went to we could only have 4 people at a time working the booth. I am removing myself from the list until I know 100% that I am going to make it due to cashflow and other issues. Right now the odds are about 98.6% that I will make it =P http://www.reactos.nl/LinuxWorld/LW04_ReactOS.pdf http://www.reactos.nl/LinuxWorld/Halle4_0_2004.pdf Thanks Steven __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

20 years, 2 months

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