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For those not following this project it is a FOSS reimplementation of the Win32 interface, which supports a great deal of humanity's historical computational effort. The new ReactOS release has reached 0.42 and the filesystems ext, btrfs are apparently RW, though Reiserfs and UFS are readonly mounts, successful systems have been shown running.
A nice gallery of some successfully run high profile applications is here (e.g. SimCity and PhotoshopCS2 !!), although interesting, not why I am reporting this.
There are an *enormous* number of scientific instruments (not just microscopes, but various scanners, PCR decks , robots) which originally came with a Win32 driver disk, and have since gone out of business or stopped support. There might only be a single run instance on a crusty old i386 (yes, I've seen that!!).
This is an ambitious project and of course depends on the effective WINE project. It deserves some specific credit and visibility, for providing a possible threshold in the future that sufficient OLD applications can be run independent of the new Microsoft "One OS to rule them All", that it may be possible to construct hybrid machines running Linux, and sufficient driver support from ReactOS to manage the old device drivers that WINE may find difficult to reverse engineer.
But in general, more OS choice's are a good thing!
(Score: 2) by JNCF on Monday August 29 2016, @09:58PM
Who actually organizes their files with upper case first and lower case second? I'll tell you who - absolutely no one ever!
The problem with speaking in absolutes is that it takes exactly one contradictory data point to prove you absolutely wrong. I am that data point. It's not that I purposefully organize my files that way, it's that I use a leading capital to mean certain things contextually and I expect capital letters to be sorted above lowercase letters because I understand that the letter-symbols I see actually correspond to numbers, and I expect those numbers to be sorted numerically; it's how I want them to be sorted. If you want to sort them based on the alphabetical characters they correspond to, adding this to the hidden .bash_profile file in your home directory should probably do what you want:
LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8; export LC_COLLATE
That assumes things about your system which may not be true, but probably are.
And that is not even mentioning problematic annoying ambiguous files that have the same name but with different capitalization. To normal people, they look the same.
To people who pay attention to capitalization, they look quite different.
I bet you start counting from zero too.
I can't tell you how Grishnakh counts, but for me the answer is "it depends on what I'm counting."