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reactos
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Questioning "The Value of Open Source Software"
https://reactos.org/ implement some of the windows API
- Saving Linux
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Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste
You can use Rufus: https://rufus.ie/en/
To modify the ISO to turn off hardware check and TPM support for Windows 11 to install it on an unsupported PC.
https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/wiki/FAQ#user-content-Help_...
Besides Linux and BSD Unix there is: https://reactos.org/ https://aros.sourceforge.io/ https://www.haiku-os.org/ and https://www.arcanoae.com/arcaos/
I know some third-world nations still use DOS and the BORLAND DOS compilers because people donate old computers to their nations.
With the right OS, old computers are still usable. Please don't throw them away, e-cycle them so they get used by poor nations that cannot afford new PCs.
- A balance between lightweight and user friendly
- Microsoft Will Eventually Start Charging You for Windows 10 Security Updates
- BREAKING NEWS: Registry healing and validation checks work by George Bisoc has just been merged into main tree!
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ReactOS Newsletter 103 – Late 2023 News
ReactOS is sometimes very disappointing. Take the issue with toolbar icons, for example. Toolbar icons in at least Office 97, Office 2000 and Visual Basic 6 were affected, as was some game [0]. Microsoft Office is a complex Win32 application, making it a good guinea pig for testing compatibility. And yet, this was fixed a few months ago, and the Office bug was reported in 2016 [1]. The bug with no text wrapping for tray balloons is also an embarrassing thing to have lingering for years (I assume it was like this since the balloons were first implemented in ReactOS).
Does the world really need a buggy Windows Server 2003 reimplementation? I think the efforts of the development team could be better spent elsewhere.
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Microsoft Edge is starting to annoy me big time
Anyone tried ReactOS recently? Supposed to be a clean-room FOSS Windows NT compatible OS.
It's still on my TODO. Mostly cause my parents want XP back.
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Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. Comfy
> It's whitespace. There's wayyyy too much god damn whitespace in modern UIs, and it's awful.
I wanted to see how LibreOffice would compare on my netbook, and frankly it's better than the new Word, but still "worse" than the old version: https://i.imgur.com/cWGYh3M.png
That said, at least LibreOffice lets you have your custom themes and actually offers a variety of different interface layouts, which I think is a nice touch: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Videos/User_interface
> Windows 7 with the Classic theme (which really was just a slight evolution over Win2K) was peak UI/UX, and you'll never change my mind. It's been downhill ever since, getting worse and worse with each generation.
To be honest, I'm inclined to agree with this. That's also why I rather enjoyed the Redmond theme even in *nix distros. There's just something so very usable about the old Windows look and more modern attempts, such as SerenityOS https://serenityos.org/ and even ReactOS https://reactos.org/
- Looking for an os for a very old laptop
dokany
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Projected File System
It's not really the same though. A Projected File System copies the files from the backing store to somewhere on the local file system when requested and then performs IO normally on the local files.
For an actual implementation of userspace filesystems on Windows see dokany: https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany
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Tutorial fo unlimited backup solution in these trying times with Backblaze, Raidrive and Dokany
Now that you are inside the Mirror folder with cmd, let’s start the Mirror function to attach a NAS or cloud folder as a local disk in order to get recognized by the BB client and be backed up. Write something like (read the dokany documentation for more details here): mirror.exe /r x:\ /l m , where x:\ should be the letter of the folder attached with Raidrive and m:\ the letter you want to assign to the new local disk.
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Ask HN: What are some good resources for learning about low level disk/file IO?
I lead a project that included shipping a filesystem driver and a virtual disk on Windows.
What I did to learn the lower-level APIs, and perform initial testing on the driver, was write a "mirror" drive. The user-mode code pointed to a folder on disk, the driver made a virtual disk drive, and all reads and writes in the virtual disk drive went to the mirror folder.
On Windows, you can implement something like that using Dokany, Dokan, or Winfsp. On linux, there's the Fuse API. On Mac, there's MacFUSE.
Even if you don't do a "mirror" drive, understanding the callbacks that libraries like Dokany, Dokan, Winfsp, and Fuse do helps you understand how IO happens in the driver. Many IO methods provided in popular languages provide abstractions above what the OS does. (For example, the Windows kernel has no concept of the "Stream" that's in your C# program. The "Stream"'s Position property is purely a construct within the .Net framework.)
https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany
Another place to start is the OS's documentation itself. For example, you can start with Window's CreateFileA function. This typically is what gets called "under the hood" in most programming languages when you open or create a file: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/...
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Add USB connected phone as video source
You'll need this ressource installed in 1.X version to make it work : https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany
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Cheapest Way to Backup 40TB to Backblaze
Potentially no need to buy any hardware https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany/wiki/Use-Mirror-example
- using back blaze personal? backing up nas?
- Error when trying to unlock any vault
- User mode file system library for windows with FUSE Wrapper
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Cryptomator and Windows 11 - Experiences?
Yeah, I had an issue and had to downgrade the Dokan Library. I downloaded from here.
- ceph-dokan mount issues. Looking for the right place to ask questions.
What are some alternatives?
NsCDE - Modern and functional CDE desktop based on FVWM
winfsp - Windows File System Proxy - FUSE for Windows
Proton - Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components
Cryptomator - Multi-platform transparent client-side encryption of your files in the cloud
serenity - The Serenity Operating System 🐞
fuse-overlayfs - FUSE implementation for overlayfs
quickemu - Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines.
ifuse - A fuse filesystem to access the contents of iOS devices
docker-minecraft-server - Docker image that provides a Minecraft Server that will automatically download selected version at startup
udmabuf - User space mappable dma buffer device driver for Linux.
ravynos - A BSD-based OS project that aims to provide source and binary compatibility with macOS® and a similar user experience.
fatx - Original Xbox FATX Filesystem Library, Python bindings, FUSE driver, and GUI explorer