ReactOS in 2020

Thom Holwerda 2021-01-02 ReactOS 2 Comments

Despite all the turbulence, it has been quite a productive year for ReactOS. Many bugs and instabilities were resolved, many more have been introduced. This year we hired two kernel developers full-time, this happened for the first time in the project’s history.
The post highlights some of the changes which may be interesting to the community.

This post is a good overview of the progress the ReactOS project has made this past year. One of the major achievements this year is that ReactOS can now use Windows’ own NTFS driver, which is pretty amazing.

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2021-01-03 1:59 am

Anonymous
This post is a good overview of the progress the ReactOS project has made this past year. One of the major achievements this year is that ReactOS can now use Windows’ own NTFS driver, which is pretty amazing.

That’s excellent. As for this:

Despite all the turbulence, it has been quite a productive year for ReactOS. Many bugs and instabilities were resolved, many more have been introduced. This year we hired two kernel developers full-time, this happened for the first time in the project’s history.

Haiku made progress in leaps and bounds when it hired full time coders to sort things out. If the ReactOS kernel coders continue in the same way this is very promising.

Kernel-mode Driver Framework support. As a part of the storage stack switch, the KMDF was ported to ReactOS allowing more drivers to potentially be used in the OS. The port is not complete yet, but already allows to use some drivers.

More excellent news.

AMD64: most of the code was merged to master, so now nightly builds can finally boot to the 1st stage setup screen on some hardware. The graphical interface still needs fixes. The porting is being done by Timo Kreuzer.

It just gets better.
2021-01-03 3:49 am

smashIt
It seems like covid turned out to be a blessing in disguise for many little projects.