This is release 0.3.1 of ReactOS, an open source effort to develop an operating system that is compatible with applications and drivers written for the Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003). Mainly, the work focused on rewriting certain parts of the ReactOS Core (kernel, HAL, bootloader, etc).
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Hey Valhalla, sorry about the delay. The girlfriend came buy and demanded we watch "Kill Bill" so no OS fix for me last night. ;-(
I tried installing it running on VirtualPC 2007 but it doesn't boot. The installer runs flawlessly but the system freezes during boot up.
I would have tried it with VMWare abut don't have a version that installs on Vista 64bit.
I'll keep testing and trying.
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[...] Please don't forget this is an alpha-stage operating system, which means it is not suitable to replace your main OS. Also, this release is aimed to be run mostly in virtualizers / emulators (like QEmu, VMWare, Parallels, etc): because of the big amount of changes, our development team was not able to test/fix all problems which arise when running ReactOS on real hardware. [...]
https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=674175
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A FREE, Windows compatible OS based on linux. great!
It's not based on Linux.
http://www.reactos.org/en/about_whatisreactos.html
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The auditing process it so fine-masked I don't see a reason atm.
The devs are very cautious in regard to IP and laws in USA.
Besides that it doesn't matter in relation to Europe. Software patents are void in EU and the only reason one can get software patents in EU is to protect IP in USA.
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2005-07-08
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ReactOS' explorer.exe works fine on WinNT-family (2000/XP/Vista), it is fully functional.
Although, ReactOS' shell32 and win32k are not matured enough, that's why you can see several small glitches. Additionally, the clipboard server, beside other things is not available in 0.3.1 at all.
Firefox up to version 1.5.x do work fine; Firefox 2.0 got a new setup app which cause problems in current state.
Please bear in mind that ReactOS 0.3.1 is still in alpha stage. A lot of things have changed (major kernel & HAL improvements, freeloader, etc.) since 0.2.x series, and some new regressions and glitches have been introduced. Following releases will contain less bugs and better compatibility.
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2006-12-11
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Virtual Box (vBox) is still too buggy (afaik) and several operating system won't work, including ReactOS.
Additionally ReactOS 0.3.1 hardware support regressed due major kernel mode changes. There are reports it doesn’t work in VPC '07, VPC '04, vBox and in AMD XP and (X2) 64 CPUs. The reason is unfinished code in the kernel involving interrupt handlers/traps.
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2005-07-11
I'm planning to download and play with the new release tonight when I get home from work, but just from perusing the Changelog, you can see that a TON of work was done...
And I think the visible changes in this release are just the tip of the iceberg, because it sure looks to me that they did a ton of "under the hood" stuff that will only become evident in future releases.
I'm looking forwards to 0.5 whenever it comes out...
Once I can use ReactOS as a daily driver, I'll be bidding farewell to Windows XP. I'm already not moving to Vista.
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