OT: complaining about your OS
- Posted by SDPringle Feb 18, 2016
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Forked from ReactOS + OpenEuphoria
ReactOS is a free and opensource "Windows" operating system that runs OpenEuphoria.
I downloaded ReactOS 0.4 as a VirtualBox download of 90MB. I tested OE4.0.5 (32-bit) and it works! This will take you back to W95 and NT days.
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This is something we could add to the docs. Sounds like a good alternative to Linux and MS Windows X. ( My post kind of went off topic here. ;) )
I am a fan of Linux but it does have its draw backs: POSIX filesystems allow too many symbols in the files. Normally this is not a problem if you are only using Linux files and people behave when they name files but I do sometimes accidentally get uppercase and lower case versions of the same file when backing up multiple times. Another is not able to distinguish distinct mice in its APIs. Multiplayer games. ;) Also no option to mount an ext2 filesystem and give another user full access. When restoring with an ext2 backup this makes me regret not having used vfat. Linux has no way to detect whether you are running your program in a terminal visible to the user or the program was opened in X-Windows to properly implement has_console(). Oh and also not being able to run new-binaries of older Linuxes. This bothers me the most. I make available a Euphoria binary but I cannot expect all the users to keep glibc to the newest incompatible version. So sometimes they just wont work. I rented webspace and upload my a EUPHORIA interpreter for CGI. It wouldn't work because of this problem. I had to port my CGI to some Interpreted language they already had, go with a Windows based web host, or install an old Linux for development. What is more of a pain? It depends on the size of the CGI script.
Windows X sends too much of the user's information to the Internet, according to a security researcher (www.grc.com).
Shawn
