I'd like to make some suggestions for ROS 0.3 support (i actually plan
to be more active in the coming months for the project, so i intend to
help out with these quite a bit)
- Working Menus
- Remaining painting glitches squashed
- Mozilla Firebird/Thunderbird working (tcp support? need a tcp stack)
- More stable.
- Better driver compatibility.
- Bug fixes in the controls, like the edit control, etc.
Well, anyways, time to rest,
Richard
I tested the installation of Winzip from Reactos command prompt
C:\Reactos> but The WINZIP 8.0 installation failed.
First a message box is displayed "WINZIP 8.0 Setup" and then I click on
SETUP Button
Unzipping files messages are displayed inside this message box..
A 2nd message box "Winzip self Extractor" is displayed with the content
"Error on running command .\SETUP .
Some DebugPort messages are output that I could forwared if needed.
I understood that earlier some testing has been done but I don'recall if
it was 100 % successful ?
Is it supposed to work now ?
Thanks and best regards.
Gerard
Hi,
I'm having some difficulty compiling ROS. I had to make a small tweak to <wine\config.h> (see my previous email) and everything compiles, except the explorer (which I've removed from my make file).
The explorer fails to compile because wstring is not defined. wstring in undefined because I have...
#ifdef _GLIBCPP_USE_WCHAR_T
template<> struct char_traits<wchar_t>;
typedef basic_string<wchar_t> wstring;
#endif
...in stringfwd.h (in the MinGW headers). I've tried defining _GLIBCPP_USE_WCHAR_T but the MinGW headers seem to be flawed.
I'm using MinGW 3.0.0, as linked to from reactos.com, but I notice 3.1.0 is also available (it appears to have the same problem).
How do you guys compile the explorer?
Cheers
Col
I tried running the latest ReactOS ISO in Virtual PC 6 and it installs
fine but crashes when I boot it up. Also it did the same thing when I
installed previous versions. I have no programming experience but I am
interested in testing ReactOS. I will send a screen shot of the error.
Hi Mark
I agree that the embedded market is one to look at. However, the
reliability of ReactOS would have to be proven to be successful I'm
sure.
Cheers
Jason
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Will this just be for the code in CVS or for 0.2 as well?
Cheers
Jason
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Hi Steven
I would assume it would be set up on the Foundation's website.
Cheers
Jason
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Hi all
Indeed, Steven and myself are having a little debate on this issue.
This
is because I'm in the planning stages of setting up a for-profit
company
that would sell solutions around ReactOS and eventually look to hire
ReactOS developers fulltime. I feel that such redistribution of
ReactOS,
before its usable as a desktop OS, through this company would be an
excellent exersize in getting operations started - while contributing
the profits back in the same way: bounties for development.
Cheers
Jason
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As a non-programmer, I'd be willing to donate towards bounties when that
structure is in place.
And have a machine all ready to test future releases on.
I'm really excited about, and will to support financially an Open Source
replacement for Windows NT/2k.
I think this will be a boon to the PC Community.
I hope that in the next year there will be available versions of ROS that
will boot to a desktop, and let us start having an OS to test and play with
more fully.
Great work so far!
Al
Hi
I'm not at against the Non Profit accepting doncations. As for
business:
I think that the licensing terms of the GNU General Public License
are
enough to keep businesses in line. For one thing, if a business does
not
comply, they will be shunned by the developer community and receive
some
nasty press. The great thing is that you have several companies with
the
same core product. This means that they have to be sure to offer
superior service and keep up good relations with the community
instead
of resting on their Intellectual Property laurels.
Cheers
Jason
Steven Edwards wrote:
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ReactOS.
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are
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both.
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