Star ReactOS 0.3.0 Released
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 28th Aug 2006 09:01 UTC
ReactOS The ReactOS team has released ReactOS 0.3.0. There's a massive changelog for this release. You can get 0.3.0 from the SourceForge page. "The ReactOS project is dedicated to making Free Software available to everyone by providing a ground-up implementation of a Microsoft Windows XP compatible operating system. ReactOS aims to achieve complete binary compatibility with both applications and device drivers meant for NT and XP operating systems, by using a similar architecture and providing a complete and equivalent public interface."
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XP compatibility?
by Alleister on Mon 28th Aug 2006 13:09 UTC
Alleister
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2006-05-29

I thoght they where only aiming for NT4?

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RE: XP compatibility?
by spikeb on Mon 28th Aug 2006 13:39 in reply to "XP compatibility?"
spikeb Member since:
2006-01-18

They decided to go ahead and aim for XP compat too, a while back. Might as well, it's NT based, and wine aims for that kind of compat too.

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RE[2]: XP compatibility?
by kaiwai on Tue 29th Aug 2006 07:53 in reply to "RE: XP compatibility?"
kaiwai Member since:
2005-07-06

Considering that they're also using a rewrite of the NT kernel, what it should mean is faster implementation of features as they don't need to work around Windows/*NIX differences, its just a matter of doing it to the documentation.

Even if it takes them until the end of next year, what this will provide, however, is a good alternative to those wanting to run Windows applications because they require compatibility, but at the same time, not have to deal with purchasing a new copy of Windows.

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