Stop Microsoft
Operating Systems => Not Quite Mainstream OSes => Topic started by: Pathos on 29 August 2006, 02:13
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http://www.reactos.org/xhtml/en/index.html
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I wonder is it still succeptible to viruses ? I mean it still has the BSOD ... so ... ?
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Well the BSOD is a useful feature, since it provides useful debug info up front, so they can fix whatever caused the BSOD.
Burning the livecd of this now... (it's only a 16Mb download!)
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ok.. firefox, 7zip, notepad2, my wireless card's drivers, the ext2 driver, OOo... none of them would install, wtf? I know firefox and OOo install and run perfectly in wine, I expected reactOS to be at least as good.
Also, to change the resolution I would've needed a reboot! That's worse than windows!
Better off installing wine on a GNU/Linux distro (it integrates well in at least Ubuntu) by the looks of it.
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Please bear in mind that ReactOS 0.3.0 is still in alpha stage and is not recommended for everyday use.
Damn Fossers!
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... notepad2...
what do you mean you can't install n2 ? cause 7zip won't work ?
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what do you mean you can't install n2 ? cause 7zip won't work ?
Ah actually, n2 was the one in the zip file.
Someone needs to make a usable livecd outta reactos. With Firefox etc.
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Someone needs to make a usable livecd outta reactos. With Firefox etc.
I nominate you.
:D
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i installed ReactOS in a VM and got Firefox and Winrar working perfectly..
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why don't people just use windows? honestly, years of development just to make clones of winzip and notepad? either choose a different OS that actually works (there are plenty) or use windows and accept the consequences! that goes for wine users too.
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Oi! Don't knock Notepad! That's some quality 1995 programming there! And on a more serious note, I like the simplicity of Notepad.
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I take more offence at that "Wine users" knock myself.
God forbid anyone should make a stop-gap for users that want certain unduplicated apps (certain games come to mind) and developers that care more for squeezing blood from a turnip than actually listening to their users (and by that I don't mean the mindless droves brainwashed into accepting Windows).
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i was that stop gap user for a good while (a couple of years) and wine did nothing to help the transition from windows to linux. if anything it wasted hours upon hours of my life in meaningless frustration and wasted download bandwidth. i am not saying anything about the quality of the software or developers, however i would seriously question the basic premise behind it as a viable method for acheiving any goal whatsoever. It is faintly possible that it helps mollycoddle those people who think an OS is for playing games on, and they can play their expensive games CDs under linux that usually run only under windows but what i say is why did those people stupidly lash out on windows only software in the first place? people who do this should use windows because when they bought the software they knew the risks.
regarding notepad, if i want its functionality i use gedit (although for quick text editing i use vi for preference), i find gedit has a nicer interface (again it's personal preference) than notepad, but more crucially gedit has *never* exited while i am in the middle of doing something, and i can't say the same for notepad.
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most of the apps provided by M$ for Window$ are a joke. Especially notepad.
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Wine has improved a lot in the last couple of years, so much so that it's actually easier to just install the Windows version of OO.O rather than fixing the darn Ubuntu package manager!
About notepad, the origional post reffered to Notepad2 which is a thrid party enhanced text editor adn has nothing to do with MS Notepad.
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About notepad, the origional post reffered to Notepad2 which is a thrid party enhanced text editor adn has nothing to do with MS Notepad.
oh, Notepad2 ? Never heard of it.
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oh, Notepad2 ? Never heard of it.
http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html
Licensed under the GPL too ;)
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pP, i remeber how i got firefox working, reactOS had an option built right into to download firefox, i think it may have been a tweaked firefox to work right.
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Edit.com roX0rs :P
[ahem that is program not a web site]
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notepad2 is one of the best freeware programming editors for windows, runs well on every version of windows (even on a P100 with win95)
notepad++ is also very good but a bit bigger.
currently I use Kate and Scite in linux, both a great.
gedits ok but gnomes poor performance means I use xubuntu/scite instead.
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i always thought gnome had poor performance. luckily, in the last year or so it has finally come up to par for me, YMMV though. i prefer its interface to KDE so i was finally able to "switch"!
this is in fedora though, i stuill find ubuntu's gnome broken (and yes i know all about kubuntu, but i prefer a working gnome, such as i have, i prefer it to some cheap windows clone too by the way!) :-)
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[offtopic]what's wrong with ubuntu's gnome?[/offtopic]
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did you try XFCE or fluxbox ? (they're much better I think ... although fewer built-in features)
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yes i love xfce however it is difficult to get it set up right i think and even then it lacks a couple of things in gnome i have not been able to live without.
ubuntu's gnome just doesn't work for me. mysterious crashes and seizes and huge bitmapping glitches when you least want them are the order of the day, just like gnome in general for me until recently.
i am sure there are those out there who will point to my X configuration though. Oddly these problems rarely if ever manifested themselves in KDE (and XFce) in the same operating environment.
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You know, I think FreeDOS is cool, but I'd rather have a kick ass WINE than REACTOS. I never thought Windows NT was really nifty to start with, so I don't really GET the idea of a WinNT clone.
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I have high hopes for ReactOS and it would be nice to see it becoming as usable as Windows 98 or more unrealistically, Windows XP. If we had a free open source OS that could run anything that MS Windows could run, then we could throw away Windows once and for all. I would dual-boot ReactOS and Linux--two great types of systems, both being free (as in beer and speech). If the PC's of the world were dominated by free open source OS's, then how could, for example, the RIAA, an American group, tell some developer in, for example, in Asia that his OS must always include DRM or else? Free operating systems are free from the clutches of evil monopolies and big organizations that do not care about the customers' rights.
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Good first post!
And welcome to microsuck!
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Thank you. I would help with the React OS project if I knew how to develop operating systems and had enough time to do so. I barely have time to try to develop software that can do my Linear Algebra homework for me.
I still buy CD's whenever I have extra money but I am not about to pop it into the PC unless I've got Suse Linux running. Not only does Windows Media Player fail to render the speed of the song properly, I also don't want a big corporate-made virus. I haven't tried to listen to a music CD under Suse Linux 10.1 yet but whenever I need to I will try it. It should work since mp3-playback also works out of the box.
I cannot wait for ReactOS to become beta software. Whenever that time comes, I will make a LiveCD of it and try it. And if M$ dares to try to f*** this effort up through groundless lawsuits, I will help people get a free copy of Windows XP. (Not through downloading or hacked kernels--I've got my method which I cannot reveal.) They already are annoying me with their news of a stupid groundless DRM hacker lawsuit. Either that, or I will encourage people to try newb-friendly Linux distros and give them a burnt CD of freeware games for Linux as well.
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Thank you. I would help with the React OS project if I knew how to develop operating systems and had enough time to do so. I barely have time to try to develop software that can do my Linear Algebra homework for me.
I still buy CD's whenever I have extra money but I am not about to pop it into the PC unless I've got Suse Linux running. Not only does Windows Media Player fail to render the speed of the song properly, I also don't want a big corporate-made virus. I haven't tried to listen to a music CD under Suse Linux 10.1 yet but whenever I need to I will try it. It should work since mp3-playback also works out of the box.
I cannot wait for ReactOS to become beta software. Whenever that time comes, I will make a LiveCD of it and try it. And if M$ dares to try to f*** this effort up through groundless lawsuits, I will help people get a free copy of Windows XP. (Not through downloading or hacked kernels--I've got my method which I cannot reveal.) They already are annoying me with their news of a stupid groundless DRM hacker lawsuit. Either that, or I will encourage people to try newb-friendly Linux distros and
give them a burnt CD of freeware games for Linux as well.
yes, cause that would be agaisnt forum rules
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and many other rules and laws as well
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I was only joking--but the method has nothing whatsoever to do with internet or anything like that. My PC didn't come with a boot disk either. I wouldn't really recommend a sh*tty OS to anyone even if it were free.
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Help people get a free copy of a free OS ... that's the best of all options.