Re:Free95: An open-source windows-compatible operating system
by mdaniel on Monday March 10, 2025 @01:03AM
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I really despise people that commit .dll and .exe files to git, and https://github.com/Versoft-Software/Free95/blob/main/free95/... isn't doing themselves any favors. However, https://github.com/Versoft-Software/Free95/blob/main/free95/... makes me wonder if this whole repo is some kind of elaborate joke or something
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Re:Free95: An open-source windows-compatible operating system
by genewitch on Monday March 10, 2025 @03:05AM
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Dang might need to manually review this post, because those files were wiped 8 minutes after you mentioned this.
Skunkworks folder is 404, too.
If you want a windows - like os there's reactos, right? You can compile it with itself.
Re:Free95: An open-source windows-compatible operating system
by coldcity on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @07:17AM
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Here's the diff :)
https://github.com/Versoft-Software/Free95/pull/3/commits/3f...
Re:Free95: An open-source windows-compatible operating system
by em3rgent0rdr on Monday March 10, 2025 @01:44AM
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Free95: "Free" as in "a free laugh".
Re:Free95: An open-source windows-compatible operating system
by cosmotic on Monday March 10, 2025 @12:37PM
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What would you suggest as an alternative to checking in DLLs?
Re:Free95: An open-source windows-compatible operating system
by mdaniel on Monday March 10, 2025 @03:27PM
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In general I would expect a mixture of two things: since this is an open source project, it should be building those things from source (even if that source isn't in this specific repo), and/or [related to that one] if it has dependencies upon pre-built binaries then put those in the build script so a reasonable person could audit both what's in that .dll and where it came from. In this specific case it seems like it came from some rando spam site without any idea what is actually in the .dll
This situation seems to be on brand for a repo that has a file named malware.c but I am addressing the general case that you asked