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LC on ReactOS?

Post by richmond62 » Thu Feb 06, 2014 10:05 pm

I am running ReactOS [ http://www.reactos.org/ ] in VMWare Player 6.0.1 on Ubuntustudio 13.10.

The 6.5.2 community installer for Windows will not even start installing.
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The 6.0.1 version starts installing and then gets stuck.
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Both freeze the system.
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Re: LC on ReactOS?

Post by richmond62 » Thu Feb 06, 2014 11:36 pm

Now; for no obvious reason at all; 6.5.2 installed, and then got stuck here:
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Now I have to reboot and try 6.5.2: possibly the "start Livecode now" checkbox screwed things up.

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Re: LC on ReactOS?

Post by richmond62 » Fri Feb 07, 2014 12:02 am

So, I rebooted and got a Blue Screen of death.

Luckily; this being VMWare, I chucked the whole thing out and started up from a "virgin" image again.

BUT the thing, having installed, froze the system at theis screen, which I cannot circumvent.
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Re: LC on ReactOS?

Post by richmond62 » Fri Feb 07, 2014 12:11 am

Just did a virtual Ctrl-Alt-Delete.

The ReactOS system has become glacially slow and unresponsive.

Will try to get the system to reboot, and hope that I don't get a blue screen of death for the 5th time, as the "fun" of continually
reinstalling Firefox 3.6, downloading Livecode 6.5.2 and resetting the screen resolution is wearing a bit thin.

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Re: LC on ReactOS?

Post by richmond62 » Fri Feb 07, 2014 12:25 am

Cripes.

This experiment has made me very anti-ReactOS.

If one wants to compare how far Livecode has travelled since 1998 with ReactOS (started 1998) there is no comparison.

I have ReactOS running with 2 Gigs of RAM, but Livecode freezes the system . . .

This doesn't cut the mustard at all.

Mind you, come to think of things, the rationale for ReactOS seems a bit dicky. If you don't like
Windows, or you cannot afford Windows; use Linux, rather than some sort of feeble imitation.
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Hvaing tried to restart via the Ctrl-Alt_del dialogue and waiting 30 minutes (see picture) I have had quite enough of ReactOS for
the foreseeable future.

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Re: LC on ReactOS?

Post by richmond62 » Sat May 03, 2014 8:37 pm

Downloaded a newer version of a VBox image of ReactOS:
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Well, at least nobody can accuse me of lack of persistence . . . LOL!

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Re: LC on ReactOS?

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Re: LC on ReactOS?

Post by richmond62 » Sun May 04, 2014 9:22 am

Well: here's "something":
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Re: LC on ReactOS?

Post by richmond62 » Sun May 04, 2014 9:35 am

This is Livecode Community 6.1.0 running on ReactOS Beta 5
in VirtualBox on Ubuntu Studio 14.04.

The only thing that I can see as vaguely fussing is the way fonts go 'odd' in certain places, as per LC's preferences
stack:
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ReactOS B5 on the left, Ubuntu Studio 14.04 on the right.

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Re: LC on ReactOS?

Post by richmond62 » Sun May 04, 2014 12:34 pm

Ha, Ha: wishful thinking: everything, after that, freezes.

Why am I doing this?

Well: less exposure to harmful radiation than climbing Mount Everest:

also, easier for slobs like me :)

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Re: LC on ReactOS?

Post by richmond62 » Fri Feb 19, 2016 12:45 pm

So; it's that time again; when Richmond for no obviously good reason whatsoever gets out ReactOS [ https://www.reactos.org/ ] and tries
LiveCode in it . . .

ReactOS 0.4.0 has been released, which, considering it has been ten years since version 0.3.0 obviously means that
version 1.0 will be released when I am pushing up the daisies.

My underpants are NOT revolving at high speed; but having committed myself 2 years ago . . .

Downloading 8.0 DP 14, 7.1.2 RC 2, 6.7.9 RC 2 all 32 bit versions: at least Firefox works in ReactOS 4 [running this inside VMware on my Xubuntu box] so
one can download stuff rather than mucking around with various software "shoehorns".

Install attempts: 'you only'

8.0 DP 14: "Install slave quit without eof"

7.1.2 RC 2: "Install slave quit without eof"

6.7.9 RC 2: "Install slave quit without eof"

'all users'

8.0 DP 14: "Install slave quit without eof"

7.1.2 RC 2: "Install slave quit without eof"

6.7.9 RC 2: "Install slave quit without eof"

'custom'

8.0 DP 14: "Install slave quit without eof"

7.1.2 RC 2: "Install slave quit without eof"

6.7.9 RC 2: "Install slave quit without eof"

Busted Flush.

Which is odd considering I got further with earlier versions of LiveCode and ReactOS.

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Re: LC on ReactOS?

Post by richmond62 » Fri Feb 19, 2016 9:36 pm

I wonder about sending a bug report to the ReactOS people about this . . .

. . . but then again I wonder if I can be bothered as I cannot quite understand what the point
of ReactOS is, and if it had a point sometime back in time that point may have been lost in the face
of the way Linux has developed.

Who, if anyone, is going to bother to install ReactOS [think Windows 98] on a machine, and then, having
done that, settle down to develop stuff with LiveCode on it?

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Re: LC on ReactOS?

Post by richmond62 » Fri Feb 19, 2016 9:47 pm

This is pretty poisonous, but I have a feeling it may be near the truth:

http://setuix.com/reactos-too-good-to-be-true/

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Re: LC on ReactOS?

Post by FourthWorld » Fri Feb 19, 2016 9:58 pm

The "slave" reference in the error suggests the issue may be related to the elevated process permissions needed to install as admin. Have you tried the "You Only" install option?
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Re: LC on ReactOS?

Post by richmond62 » Fri Feb 19, 2016 10:11 pm

If you look back at my posting you should see that the "You Only" option was the first one I tried.

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