Star New ReactOS Newsletter
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 4th Jul 2007 23:08 UTC
ReactOS The ReactOS project has released a new newsletter. "The past few weeks have seen quite a lot of activity. At least six major blocker bugs were dealt with, ranging from the network issue to various bugs in the command line console." On top of that: "Some people aren't aware that ReactOS was one of several projects that received hardware to test on from One Laptop Per Child. Aleksey has been playing around with it, slowly coaxing ReactOS to boot."
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Won't boot here
by Liquidator on Thu 5th Jul 2007 09:30 UTC
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2007-03-04

I tried ReactOS on two computers here, the boot CD stops when loading the OS. I hope they will fix it. It only works in VMWare here.

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RE: Won't boot here
by predictor on Thu 5th Jul 2007 10:37 in reply to "Won't boot here"
predictor Member since:
2006-11-30

<cough>Legally dead on arrival</cough>

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RE[2]: Won't boot here
by vege on Thu 5th Jul 2007 11:57 in reply to "RE: Won't boot here"
vege Member since:
2006-04-07

Do you feel you know something that noone else does?
If so, please quote. If not, please don't disturb the people putting real efforts in the project or just being interested.

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RE: Won't boot here
by Laurence on Thu 5th Jul 2007 10:58 in reply to "Won't boot here"
Laurence Member since:
2007-03-26

I experienced exactly the same on every system I tried my CD on. I even tried a 2nd CD just in case it was the media.

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RE: Won't boot here
by bsharitt on Thu 5th Jul 2007 12:54 in reply to "Won't boot here"
bsharitt Member since:
2005-07-07

That seems to be a growing trend in smaller alternative and hobby operating systems, their driver support for modern hardware has slowed down with the advancement of virtual machines.

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RE[2]: Won't boot here
by Vanders on Thu 5th Jul 2007 19:03 in reply to "RE: Won't boot here"
Vanders Member since:
2005-07-06

Not at all. If anything the problem is that hardware complexity is increasing, standards are only loosely followed by manufacturers and documentation is nearly impossible to find unless it's an Intel component.

If that wasn't bad enough, broken ACPI implementations are probably the cause of at least a quarter of everybodies problems alone.

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