http://www.osnews.com/story/17523/ReactOS_an_Open_Source_OS_Platform_for_Learning Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:30:34 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?222928 http://osnews.com/thread?222928 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.. Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (BSDfan) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?222943 http://osnews.com/thread?222943 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..

You do know who wrote this blurb, right?

One of the main devs of ReactOS. Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom_Holwerda) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?222951 http://osnews.com/thread?222951 People saying ReactOS has a kernel based on Windows NT5.2(2k3) is a little misleading.

In their defense, the goal of ReactOS has changed many times over the years. Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Almafeta) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?222958 http://osnews.com/thread?222958 "People saying ReactOS has a kernel based on Windows NT5.2(2k3) is a little misleading.."

So I should take your word over this guy's...

"Speaker Bio

Alex Ionescu is currently studying in Software Engineering at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec and is a Microsoft Technical Student Ambassador. He is the lead kernel developer of the ReactOS Project and project leader of TinyKRNL."

I'm glad I RTFA! Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SReilly) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?222966 http://osnews.com/thread?222966 Sorry, I was only commenting about his choice of wording.

I must of read it as if they said:
"It's based off of Windows 2003's kernel source code.."

SReilly, I'm aware who he is... Apologies.Edited 2007-03-20 20:26 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (BSDfan) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?222977 http://osnews.com/thread?222977 No worries, I hope I didn't offend. Reading over it again, it seem like I may have been a little heavy handed in my reply ;-), but I do understand where you are coming from.

Trying to be humorous was never my strong point... Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SReilly) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?222987 http://osnews.com/thread?222987 I believe Alex meant "based on the design of", which is correct. Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Myrd) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?223022 http://osnews.com/thread?223022 Your comment was appropriate. Regardless of who wrote it, as written the statement implies that the OS is based on Windows 2003, not that it is a reimplementation of it. However, its probably just a poor choice of wording on his part. Tue, 20 Mar 2007 22:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rayiner) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?223112 http://osnews.com/thread?223112 ReactOS aims to be 100% API, source, and binary compatible with Windows. It's similar to how Wine is an implementation of the Win32 API. Wed, 21 Mar 2007 05:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Andareed) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?223118 http://osnews.com/thread?223118 ReactOS must "clone" an environment capable of running Win16, Win32, and Win64. On top of that, it must also inclusively implement all the .NET Framework releases. That is, if the goal is complete compatibility and implementation. To me that is not directly comparable to cloning one Windows release level, it is going beyond that.

Can anyone clarify the differences between Win64 5.x and Win64 6.x? Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dnstest) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?223132 http://osnews.com/thread?223132 ReactOS is currently aiming for win32 only. There is no 16 bit support in ReactOS and there never will be.

64 bit is planned for the future, but there is little point in doing this until the current code base is both stable and complete enough for it to be viable.

It should be noted that much of the ReactOS code is 64 bit friendly as the devs are aware of the future path of computing. Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gedmurphy) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?223163 http://osnews.com/thread?223163 Hope this project does well.
It may be the only hope for legacy Win32 code as MS slowly starts forcing everyone to use .NET. Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (load_mic) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?223170 http://osnews.com/thread?223170 Mono should help if you need the .NET support (which I would need too). It isn't exactly compatible but it's close, and runs on Windows already. Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (BrianH) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?223570 http://osnews.com/thread?223570 My understanding is ReactOS is an attempt to provide binary level compatability with Windows NT and derived systems.

This timeline shows some of the relationships :-

http://www.oshistory.net/metadot/index.pl?id=2165

The timeline has not been updated in a couple of years and the current information I have on ReactOS is here :-

http://www.oshistory.net/metadot/index.pl?id=2341

This is due to be merged in and I will be releasing a new version with a complete update in mid-April.

Paddy Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (UnderMine) Comments