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jeditobeon ReactOS

Unfortunately, I was not able to find any bug-report related to the Avid Pro Tools 7 in the bug-tracker https://jira.reactos.org/

Filling a bug-report is the important first step to have your software working in ReactOS

jeditobeon ReactOS

> To the ReactOS devs: what's the deal with the last couple years of GSOC projects?

There are a qute a lot of pretty ideas https://reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2020_Ideas

The problem is in lack of students ^)

jeditobeon ReactOS

> Eventually, XP will fail to run on new hardware, and when that happens a lot of great software will die also.

https://www.win-raid.com/t4035f45-Windows-XP-Bit-and-Server-...

After i have found this, i m not sure that xp will ever die

jeditobeon ReactOS

It is worth noting that they can hire developers at competitive market rates thanks to donations obtained from private individuals.

Example: https://reactos.org/project-news/victor-perevertkin-hired-fu...

Donate if you have some spare dollars https://reactos.org/donate/

Apply for a job if you are a C\C++ developer https://reactos.org/contributing/#paid-jobs

jeditobeon ReactOS

ReactOS needs help with its web infrastructure. Joun the official chat and discuss the details https://chat.reactos.org :)

jeditobeon ReactOS

https://sourceforge.net/projects/reactos/files/ReactOS/0.4.1...

0.4.14 is on its lats phase of preparation

jeditobeon ReactOS

This was just an insult from a private person, which was not supported by the position of his employer

jeditobeon Collapse OS

>ReactOS is bloated by definition of replicating windows

It is very wrong assumption!

jeditobeon A Kernel Engineer at Microsoft's Answer to “What Do You Think about ReactOS?”

Well, now please re-read your statement

Do you understand that internal data structures entirely from the NT kernel, including (why?) their names != verbatim code from NT in your source

The program code is logic first of all.

For the similarities of names and structures itself - the answer is in this already mentioned video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D9ExVc0G10&t=9m53s from the 9:53 moment of time. TL:DW there are a lot of legal ways of obtaining names of variables, exported functions and structures

jeditobeon A Kernel Engineer at Microsoft's Answer to “What Do You Think about ReactOS?”

Yep, you are right, https://www.linkedin.com/in/markrussinovich/

But still in 2006 ReactOS already had its 0.3.0 version and 8 years of existence ^) And book Microsoft Windows Internals, Fourth Edition has already been released in 2004

jeditobeon A Kernel Engineer at Microsoft's Answer to “What Do You Think about ReactOS?”

No, he did not. Mark Russinovich also started to work on Microsoft only recently.

jeditobeon A Kernel Engineer at Microsoft's Answer to “What Do You Think about ReactOS?”

One small correction. On quora, you state that there is no such thing as public documentation for the NT kernel internals.

There IS public documentation for the NT kernel internals. It is called Windows Internals Book (https://amzn.to/2xCQla5) and has survived its’ 7th Edition

jeditobeon A Kernel Engineer at Microsoft's Answer to “What Do You Think about ReactOS?”

Even very dirty river water would still spin your mill, as long as the mill itself is good.

This guy literally confirms that one little open source OS could be as good as Windows $)

jeditobeon A Kernel Engineer at Microsoft's Answer to “What Do You Think about ReactOS?”

Hello from ReactOS team!

We don't use the leaked code from MS,

We don't use Windows Research Kernel,

We thank you for the PR campaign you have stared 'pro bono' for our project! ;D

jeditobeon ReactOS 0.4.11 Released

You are awesome

jeditobeon ReactOS 0.4.11 Released

please read the manual first (before you try)