FreeDOS will never serve as a bootloader for ReactOS.
but FreeLDR can boot FreeDOS as well as ReactOS (and as well as Windows, or Linux...)
never heard of that (freeLdr)
matt
Chungy
FreeLDR is part of ReactOS, its own version of NTLDR.
matt
I just saw this other thing
Chungy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTLDR
matt
I wonder if it can be used with reactOS or not
matt
Also this:
matt
How to make windows 2000 bootable USB with E2B easy2boot? - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=la1iFp5TrbM
matt
could these kind of software be useful for booting ReactOS or not in your opinion?
Eris
try it instead
MethanoVicky
is it possible to boot reactOS in tandem with freeDOS?
you may extract old pbr into a file so that you can easily dual boot
MethanoVicky
i used to do such and putting multi os into a partition is tasty
Can
https://twitter.com/reactos/status/1623962476537688065?t=JUQTeUgPaM91EiTmYcTLqw&s=19
matt
does ReactOS has any error sound effects like Windows or not?
MethanoVicky
https://github.com/reactos/reactos/blob/master/media/sounds/error.mp3
Alejandro Jeditobe
https://twitter.com/reactos/status/1623962476537688065?t=JUQTeUgPaM91EiTmYcTLqw&s=19
Is there the report about installer?
Can
https://twitter.com/reactos/status/1624520667495268354
Can
Don't miss that, too: https://twitter.com/reactos/status/1624324863828582402
Daniel "TheReimi"
We have the maze as Screensaver, dont forget that. I use it at work all the time. Sometimes my boss stands on my desk and just watches it completing the maze ^^
Mark
Timo also likes to stare at it
Daniel "TheReimi"
matt
openVMS code used to be open due to a past license before it reverted back being closed source.
how much influence does openVMS hold on the reactOS project?
matt
in short: VMS is windows dad (in a sense). it's code has influenced later versions of windows after microsoft hired the engineers responsible for programming it.
Mark
-3
Chungy
openVMS code used to be open due to a past license before it reverted back being closed source.
how much influence does openVMS hold on the reactOS project?
OpenVMS has literally never been open source.
Chungy
The name predates the concept, too.
Can
https://twitter.com/reactos/status/1624862460749414404
matt
does reactOS supports ahci and raid-on sata operations?
Julio
Timofej
Can
https://twitter.com/reactos/status/1625519768768811011
Lindro
or just use dd or rufus
Anonymous
доброе утро
Esteban
@reactos_ru
Can
https://twitter.com/reactos/status/1625952085991645184?t=8GKhkdAUIAODEF3aKTahZg&s=19
matt
will reactOS have it's own version of windows powershell or it will use an hybrid unified interface like on windows 11?
Julen
1 Millon dollar Pull Request.
Matrix Telegram Bridge
Hyperbased in Hyperspace: it someone makes it it will have its own
Mark
But why
Anas
Someone made a 1 million dollar pull request?
Chungy
will reactOS have it's own version of windows powershell or it will use an hybrid unified interface like on windows 11?
PowerShell is open source, so why not the real one? You can port it
Chungy
for reference: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell
Eris
why did you have to remind me of powershell's mascot
Chungy
i have no idea where that image came from
Matrix Telegram Bridge
duc: From github
Chungy
it's not visible anywhere on the page
Matrix Telegram Bridge
duc: Maybe Microsoft hard coded it to the repo
Matrix Telegram Bridge
duc: Idk
Matrix Telegram Bridge
hbelusca Z[J]=∫𝒟𝜑 exp(ⅈS[𝜑,J]/ℏ):
> will use an hybrid unified interface like on windows 11
Matrix Telegram Bridge
hbelusca Z[J]=∫𝒟𝜑 exp(ⅈS[𝜑,J]/ℏ): what does that mean?
Can
https://twitter.com/reactos/status/1626310663797628930
Mike
Dumb question: since this project has a few years, I suppose some devs and contributors died. Is there a list, a "in memoriam" page or such?
matt
doesn't look dumb at all as a question.
developers need to be remembered and not forgotten for having contributed with their hard work to their projects of choice.
Alejandro Jeditobe
Alejandro Jeditobe
We already have around 3 or 4 RIP members of the project
Mike
thanks!
matt
can reactOS batch-rename files like windows?
Alejandro Jeditobe
https://twitter.com/aaidee/status/1626637400075280388 @ctasan
matt
can reactOS batch-rename files like windows?
how does windows achieve this compared to other operating systems like linux?
Chungy
how does windows achieve this compared to other operating systems like linux?
rename *.text *.txt
In short: The shell in DOS/Windows doesn't expand anything, the program gets the * character literally and has to perform its own appropriate logic. Rename is designed for this exact case.
Chungy
Linux does have a rename program that can achieve a similar effect but with drastically different syntax thanks to how shell expansion works.
matt
matt
why is shell expansion different on linux than on windows?
matt
why it cannot be imitated?
Chungy
No reason it can't. If you run wine cmd, boom, you get a Windows-style shell on Linux.
Why it's different in traditional bourne shells? Because that's how it's been since 1972 and almost nobody wants to change that.
Can
https://twitter.com/reactos/status/1626690338067828751
matt
why can windows tell an hard disk drive motor to correctly shut down, stop spinning and start emitting a blinking light while an hard drive mounted with fusefs cannot communicate in the same way?
Chungy
that's not FUSE's job. Your question is misguided.
Chungy
Linux idles disks just fine.
matt
sometimes I noticed that with certain file managers this feature doesn't resemble windows at all
Chungy
That's not the job of a file manager either.
Your disk will idle and be parked when there's no activity. That's the point of idle.
matt
what is microsoft doing that others are not?
matt
I mostly noticed this on ghostBSD, the hard disk drive wouldn't stop spinning even if the hard drive has been dismounted.