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ReactOS: an Open Source OS Platform for Learning

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 20th Mar 2007 18:38 UTC, submitted by Andareed

"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..

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RE: Windows 2003-based kernel?

by Thom_Holwerda on Tue 20th Mar 2007 19:46 in reply to "Windows 2003-based kernel?"

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2005-06-29

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.

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RE: Windows 2003-based kernel?

by Almafeta on Tue 20th Mar 2007 19:53 in reply to "Windows 2003-based kernel?"

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2007-02-22

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.

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RE: Windows 2003-based kernel?

by SReilly on Tue 20th Mar 2007 20:15 in reply to "Windows 2003-based kernel?"

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2006-12-28

"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!

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RE: Windows 2003-based kernel?

by BSDfan on Tue 20th Mar 2007 20:25 in reply to "Windows 2003-based kernel?"

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2007-03-14

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

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RE[2]: Windows 2003-based kernel?

by SReilly on Tue 20th Mar 2007 20:52 in reply to "RE: Windows 2003-based kernel?"

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2006-12-28

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...

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RE[2]: Windows 2003-based kernel?

by rayiner on Tue 20th Mar 2007 22:46 in reply to "RE: Windows 2003-based kernel?"

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2005-07-06

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.

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