Re: [ros-general] Microsoft wants royalties for use of FAT

[Richard Campbell]

see the earlier link i posted, there appears to be a working ext2 driver 
available...someone just needs to modify ROS/freeloader to boot from an 
ext2 partition

Andrew "Silver Blade" Greenwood wrote:

>  I still think we should aim to get one of the Linux
> file systems working
> under ReactOS pretty soon-ish. Then if the worst does happen at least it
> won't be such a major blow.
>
> OK, so the bad thing is, we'd lose FAT and maybe eventually NTFS support
> too. The good thing is... What's there to stop users from just copying over
> the relevant system files from Windows NT/2000/XP when the ReactOS kernel is
> strong enough to support them? Sure, if we're running on a Linux file system
> it won't be a straightforward file copy operation, but it shouldn't be too
> hard to make a program that can shift a couple of files from Windows into
> the ReactOS partition, using the ReactOS ext2/3/ReiserFS driver?
>
> This would swing in favour of Linux too, since people like me who dual-boot
> would no longer have to choose between no security/file system compatibility
> (using FAT for data), and high security/no file system compatibility
> (ext2/3/ReiserFS and NTFS.)
>
> And again, we could have a Linux swap partition driver (I use one for my
> Win2k installation at the moment) and allow the user to select that as a
> pagefile location.
>
> The end result would be that users might be less willing to install ReactOS
> for fear of losing FS compatibility with Windows. However, if ROS can be
> booted from a CD, maybe it can have an option to run a "demo" environment
> where it loads everything from CD?
>
> Even better - why not just make the installer start up the GUI from the CD
> with a "welcome to ReactOS" screen, and then from there let the user select
> if they want to install or have a play around with ReactOS first. I mean,
> once it's loaded, it's loaded, right? So you could jump into a useable OS
> and be able to do almost anything you can do with Windows. Maybe even allow
> network installation somehow?
>
> Just a few crazy ideas ;)
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Sami Petteri Niemi" <j82144(a)uwasa.fi>
> To: <ros-general(a)reactos.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 10:53 AM
> Subject: Re: [ros-general] Microsoft wants royalties for use of FAT
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> >  Discussion in Gentoo linux Forum:
> > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=112001
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