Enjoy it then
Can it locks up a lot :p
Tobiyo
Anonymous
Well hello there everyone !
Anonymous
That's straight up dreaming
Anonymous
It'll never happen as Win7 is still too widely used and that they haven't done it for any Windows OS ever...
MS DOS isn't FOSS, right ?
If so, FreeDOS wouldn't be this buggy, right ?
Petrus
Windows 7 is still too much compatible to Windows 10 in binary execution. M$oft won't do that. Neither release XP sourcecode.
ReactOS would gain too much advantage if they did.
I only see this movement as trolling to a company which only is opensource with small things. Let's see what they'd answer about.
Tony
It'll never happen as Win7 is still too widely used and that they haven't done it for any Windows OS ever...
MS DOS isn't FOSS, right ?
If so, FreeDOS wouldn't be this buggy, right ?
Wait wait, who told you that FreeDOS is buggy? In what way?
Luka🇺🇦
Hi
Luka🇺🇦
is there way to run reactos on arm hardware ?
Luka🇺🇦
rpis/arm phone?
hacker12455
nope not yet
hacker12455
Oh right
hacker12455
hmm did anyone test it on real hardware?
Stas'M
hmm did anyone test it on real hardware?
@driver1998 tested it on Raspberry Pi 3 in Linux with QEMU
Luka🇺🇦
so if it worked ig we can run on phone with QEMU
Luka🇺🇦
@driver1998 tested it on Raspberry Pi 3 in Linux with QEMU
butw what is missing for boot on rpi?
Luka🇺🇦
i mean real hw
Luka🇺🇦
drivers?
Luka🇺🇦
port like compiled kernel or like drivers needed for boot?
Anonymous
Windows 7 is still too much compatible to Windows 10 in binary execution. M$oft won't do that. Neither release XP sourcecode.
ReactOS would gain too much advantage if they did.
I only see this movement as trolling to a company which only is opensource with small things. Let's see what they'd answer about.
Also, there'll be other Windows open source clones, which is not good for ReactOS
Anonymous
There has been a lot of deprecated ROS forks back in the say, and that was already a big ass waste of time
Anonymous
FreeDOS is way more feature-rich for sure...
You do not have to do all the hacks you did in the MS-DOS days...
However in regards to stability, there's still some work needed to be done, otherwise, yeah, it's pretty good...
And I don't think that even if FreeDOS had all the MS-DOS source code, that it'll help in any way...
Chungy
are you high? FreeDOS is perfectly stable.
Anonymous
I mean, they managed to reverse engineer pretty much everything.
Also Microsoft isn't the only one that has made a DOS Shell, if I remember correctly IBM were the first to release one with PC DOS, and there was also a myriad of other manufacturers implementation
Stas'M
port like compiled kernel or like drivers needed for boot?
ReactOS currently is only for Intel x86, and RPi is ARM
Tony
Could not agree more with you 👍
Mark
They are in dire need of some attention
Tobiyo
Hahaha yeah i'm really curious if ms will respond to this
Chungy
get them to release Windows 3 first
Tobiyo
There already was some rumors about open source windows a few years ago :p
Chungy
well the beginning would be 1.0, but that's practically useless
Chungy
3.x still has some value I'd say.
Tobiyo
Hmmm, i suppose
Anonymous
This website needs destruction
Chungy
April 1
Anonymous
It's so impossible it's barely funny to read
A real April fool is possible enough so it's interesting and funny
Tobiyo
nope
Tobiyo
this https://www.wired.com/2015/04/microsoft-open-source-windows-definitely-possible/
Tobiyo
yes tis a old rumor
Tobiyo
and yes there no follow up on it afaik
Anonymous
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Anonymous
https://www.fsf.org/windows/upcycle-windows-7
Anonymous
I know that is windows but I don't want to waste the opportunity to have it opensource (for less possible is)
Anonymous
I know that is windows but I don't want to waste the opportunity to have it opensource (for less possible is)
It can't happen as of now.
Anonymous
Please, check links before posting...
In the first sentence I see an error.
No, Windows 7 isn't reaching it's end of life...
The FSF is doing that in desperate need of awareness that they exist...
Very sad
Petrus
In the first sentence I see an error.
No, Windows 7 isn't reaching it's end of life...
The FSF is doing that in desperate need of awareness that they exist...
Very sad
It is not?
I've read the end of extended support in M$oft official webpage
Anonymous
It is not?
I've read the end of extended support in M$oft official webpage
End of extended support never meant end of life
Petrus
That's why I'm migrating desktops to win10
Anonymous
Two completely different things
Petrus
Well, no updates mean death
Anonymous
That's why I'm migrating desktops to win10
An example of an end of life operating system will be Ubuntu 12.04, CentOS/RHEL 5, Windows XP, and so on
Petrus
Ubuntu 14.04 has ended, too. You'll get updates only if you pay, if I remember.
Anonymous
Anonymous
Ubuntu 14.04 has ended, too. You'll get updates only if you pay, if I remember.
Exactly, so it's not end of life, it's end of general support
Stas'M
You can still get updates for desktops that do not want to migrate...
If you apply a simple patch that's called BypassESU
My reaction was related to death. Software cannot death because well... it's not a living organism 😏
Petrus
You can still get updates for desktops that do not want to migrate...
If you apply a simple patch that's called BypassESU
I didn't knew about BypassESU, thanks.
Anyway, I'll continue migrating. Users decided to marry M$oft, so let them deal with it
Anonymous
My reaction was related to death. Software cannot death because well... it's not a living organism 😏
Oh yeah, that's completely true
Anonymous
I didn't knew about BypassESU, thanks.
Anyway, I'll continue migrating. Users decided to marry M$oft, so let them deal with it
Well, at least you have an alternative if a machine won't update
Petrus
My reaction was related to death. Software cannot death because well... it's not a living organism 😏
Software gets infected or corrupted 🤪
Petrus
If there is no update to fix vulnerabilities, software will be exploited. So restoring will be useless
Stas'M
There are no vulnerabilities that cannot be patched or worked around
Anonymous
You can still get updates for desktops that do not want to migrate...
If you apply a simple patch that's called BypassESU
The problem is that with bypassesu you have to install manually every update (I've seen in digitalife forum) and in 2021 will end
Petrus
There are no vulnerabilities that cannot be patched or worked around
In closed and abandoned software? Tell me how
Stas'M
In closed and abandoned software? Tell me how
1. Software firewall
2. If that doesn't work, hardware firewall
3. Popular software is also supported by unofficial enthusiast communities
Stas'M
Closed source code is not that big obstacle, you still can modify the code
Mark
Yup
Petrus
Closed source code is not that big obstacle, you still can modify the code
Windows XP. There are a lot of them still online or behind firewall.
I mean, bare metal machines, not virtual.
Anonymous
that's not even true as updates are sent through MS update