Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 20th Mar 2007 18:38 UTC, submitted by Andareed
ReactOS "The ReactOS operating system has been in development for over eight years and aims to provide users with a fully functional and Windows-compatible distribution under the GPL license. ReactOS comes with its own Windows 2003-based kernel and system utilities and applications, resulting in an environment identical to Windows, both visually and internally. This talk will introduce the ReactOS project, as well as the various software engineering challenges behind it."
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Windows 2003-based kernel?
by BSDfan on Tue 20th Mar 2007 19:25 UTC
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2007-03-14

People saying ReactOS has a kernel based on Windows NT5.2(2k3) is a little misleading..

ReactOS actually is writing a completely 100% Open Source implementation of the NT series under the GPL..

They implement plan on supporting API's from NT4/NT5(2000)/NT5.1(XP)/NT5.2(2k3) and NT6(Vista).

Misinterpretation errors like that cause lots of problems, It's like the people who keep mistaking ReactOS as a Moddified Linux system.. It's not..

It's a complete NT re-implementation..