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We hurry to share our progress in the development, in the mode of assorted.
There is support for hard disk partitions with FS Ext2, Ext3 and Ext4.
Suddenly they corrected the most ancient font bug , which is more than 7 years old. Now the Open Office 1.xx installer normally displays text labels. It is noteworthy that I understood the problem and sent a patch to one of the newcomers to the project, and not the old-timer.
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Perhaps this fix or break other programs. Need tests. Thus, according to the bug tracker, all existing versions of Open and Libre Office are fully functional in ReactOS. If you have any other information, please issue a bug report.
And also ... our build system now collects images in one step instead of two (the preliminary stage with compiling host-tools is no longer needed, another result of the hackathon in Germany). Alex Ionescu fulfilled the promise and developed the UEFI downloader . Jim Tabor has finally implemented support for “puff windows” .
Work ReactOS on another real computer (attention, 16+ ):
Launching the DOS version of the popular game of the past without DOSbox:
PS Thank you barkalov for the corrected version of CdPV.
Support for additional file systems like people
There is support for hard disk partitions with FS Ext2, Ext3 and Ext4.
View the partition of the HDD disk with the ext3 file system in reactos. Thanks to Peter Hater and Thomas Faber for their work!
Need more "offices"
Suddenly they corrected the most ancient font bug , which is more than 7 years old. Now the Open Office 1.xx installer normally displays text labels. It is noteworthy that I understood the problem and sent a patch to one of the newcomers to the project, and not the old-timer.
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Two magic commits
69562 changed 1 file trunk in reactos
[GDI32] Use NtGdiGetGlyphIndicesW () in GetCharacterPlacementW () as we do have it. Fixes OpenOffice: v1.xx garbled text. Brought to you by Vort. CORE-867
-5 + 2 / trunk / reactos / win32ss / gdi / gdi32 / objects / font.c
31 mins ago
69561changed 2 filestrunk in reactos
[WIN32K] [PSDK] Correct NtGdiGetGlyphIndicesW () pwc type. Brought to you by Vort. CORE-867
-1 + 1 / trunk / reactos / include / psdk / ntgdi.h
-2 + 2 / trunk / reactos / win32ss / gdi / ntgdi / freetype.c
Perhaps this fix or break other programs. Need tests. Thus, according to the bug tracker, all existing versions of Open and Libre Office are fully functional in ReactOS. If you have any other information, please issue a bug report.
And what else?
And also ... our build system now collects images in one step instead of two (the preliminary stage with compiling host-tools is no longer needed, another result of the hackathon in Germany). Alex Ionescu fulfilled the promise and developed the UEFI downloader . Jim Tabor has finally implemented support for “puff windows” .
And finally, a couple of demo videos quench your thirst:
Work ReactOS on another real computer (attention, 16+ ):
Launching the DOS version of the popular game of the past without DOSbox:
PS Thank you barkalov for the corrected version of CdPV.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/269017/
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