Star ReactOS: an Open Source OS Platform for Learning
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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RE: Windows 2003-based kernel?
by BSDfan on Tue 20th Mar 2007 20:25 UTC in reply to "Windows 2003-based kernel?"
BSDfan
Member since:
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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SReilly Member since:
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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rayiner Member since:
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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Andareed Member since:
2007-03-19

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.

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