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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2006-07-15
>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?
The release was already about two months late, and most critical bugs had been fixed. The 0.3.1 branch was also getting old in relation to trunk, so further delays would have caused even more merging issues between the two.
>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?
Absolutely not. From what I understand, ReactOS' (and windows' as well) TCP/IP implementation is borrowed from FreeBSD. Basically, ReactOS's audio architecture has to be compatible with windows's, which linux or BSD is not.
(Anyone care to correct the numerous technical errors I've no doubt made? :p)
Edited 2007-03-19 01:34