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Well, I have them, but they arent really Win2003 but XP.SP1, and they seems to be incomplete. If you have better source, I am all ears :D Anyway, those sources

by Borg3 3y ago

Well, I have them, but they arent really Win2003 but XP.SP1, and they seems to be incomplete. If you have better source, I am all ears :D Anyway, those sources are handy to check some internals of Win2003. I have few binaries hex edited so they are tweaked to my needs. Like Desktops 2.0, IPMON.DLL helper to accept DNS server as 127.0.0.1 from netsh and few more probably. I would LOVE to have Win2003 sources :)

vkaku 3y ago
I guess there are places on the internet where I have seen people being able to build some versions of Windows from source. Since this is illegal I can't say a lot more about it. There's always the ReactOS project, I wonder how good things will be if we just slipstreamed their DLLs into Windows. That would be a good way to do this.
- Borg3 3y ago
  I care about stability. Its a must. And my Win2003 is absolutly reliable. In old desktop I had random BSODs due to driver issue. Some Audio driver was not happy about PAE and 8GB RAM. After long fight I isolated faulty .sys driver and decided to use HW drivers instead instead of my mobo vendor ones. Problem vanished.
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  - vkaku 3y ago
    We'll if you already have the code, you should be able to get farther with it. I think :-)
    - Borg3 3y ago
      Well, there is not much to do really. Im happy with it. Its stable, fast, nice looking. If I had a source code and could compile part of kernels I would try to do some more hacks maybe. Like one thing in CM annoys me that there is no knob to limit how much RAM can be used as Filesystem Cache. Once all RAM is eaten by cache, system ca be a bit erratic under load. With should NOT really happen because Win2003 implements LRU cache, so it should discard least used pages on fly and make them to use either by apps or cache. But, this not happens often really, so not big issue :)
      - vkaku 3y ago
        In true video game fashion: There are rumours that there are non-Microsoft people out there compiling Windows kernels. If you choose to investigate, the reward would be a FS-Cache RAM Knob.

by Borg3 3y ago

vkaku 3y ago

I guess there are places on the internet where I have seen people being able to build some versions of Windows from source. Since this is illegal I can't say a lot more about it. There's always the ReactOS project, I wonder how good things will be if we just slipstreamed their DLLs into Windows. That would be a good way to do this.

Borg3 3y ago
I care about stability. Its a must. And my Win2003 is absolutly reliable. In old desktop I had random BSODs due to driver issue. Some Audio driver was not happy about PAE and 8GB RAM. After long fight I isolated faulty .sys driver and decided to use HW drivers instead instead of my mobo vendor ones. Problem vanished.
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- vkaku 3y ago
  We'll if you already have the code, you should be able to get farther with it. I think :-)
  - Borg3 3y ago
    Well, there is not much to do really. Im happy with it. Its stable, fast, nice looking. If I had a source code and could compile part of kernels I would try to do some more hacks maybe. Like one thing in CM annoys me that there is no knob to limit how much RAM can be used as Filesystem Cache. Once all RAM is eaten by cache, system ca be a bit erratic under load. With should NOT really happen because Win2003 implements LRU cache, so it should discard least used pages on fly and make them to use either by apps or cache. But, this not happens often really, so not big issue :)
    - vkaku 3y ago
      In true video game fashion: There are rumours that there are non-Microsoft people out there compiling Windows kernels. If you choose to investigate, the reward would be a FS-Cache RAM Knob.