Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 19th Mar 2007 00:25 UTC, submitted by Z98
The latest ReactOS newsletter is out. "Reactions have varied in regard to 0.3.1, though one response was consistent. The difficulty in getting it to work on real hardware. As mentioned many times, 0.3.1 was branched in the middle of a kernel rewrite."
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While I appreciate the fact that they are in the middle of a kernel re-write, I can't see why they would release something that just does not work.
OK sure, ReactOS is getting to the stage that major jumps have to be done to go to the next stage of it's evolution (for lack of a better word) and many of other OS's have had to go though the same thing, but why not hang back for a few more weeks until this was sorted before committing?
Enough of me moaning, well done all ReactOS devs out there, for not only keeping this going but looking far into the future. Vista compatibility may be a few years off yet but at least your roadmap looks very good and everyone has a common goal.
Just one question to anyone out there who might know: Is there a general rule that nothing can be taken from the Linux / BSD code base? The reason I ask is that with the Audio issue it seems to me that you could take one of the well tested and mature sound engines from Linux and integrate that to give you sound support. You could then just put in wrappers around it to make it compatible with ReactX and DirectSound (or your take on that standard). Just a thought.