ReactOS Archive

ReactOS Fundraising Campaign Finished

Submitted by frik85 2007-02-12 ReactOS 6 Comments

"A month ago ReactOS project announced a fundraising campaign aimed to gather money to support our operation - servers, exhibitions, promotions, spread the word, etc. Today I am very glad to say that this fundraising campaign did not only meet the required value of 4000 euro, but also outperformed and we gathered a total of 4450 EUR!"

ReactOS’s Project Leader Speaks up

Submitted by Floris Lambrechts 2007-02-02 ReactOS 19 Comments

In preparation to hist talk at the upcoming FOSDEM conference in Brussels, ReactOS project leader Aleksey Bragin in an interview details the code audit that the project is going trough, and reveals the intellectual property minefield that such a large reverse engineered OS brings. "I can't stress this enough: up to now, no suspicious or illegal code has been found during the audit. Buggy code - yes, this was either fixed or rewritten. Also, another part which is sometimes speculated about - that the remaining 3% of the unaudited codebase is illegal - this is completely wrong."

Vista’s DRM: Interview with Alex Ionescu

Submitted by frik85 2007-02-02 ReactOS 30 Comments

"As Vista’s deployment ramps up, news has begun to circulate that its highly regarded Protected Media Path has been defeated. The Protected Media Path is an array of Digital Rights Management technologies that allows 'premium content' to be 'enjoyed' by the consumer. The individual that has been labeled responsible for this feat is Alex Ionescu. Alex Ionescu is highly experienced and talented programmer whose primary work concentrates on the community-based ReactOS project. ReactOS is an open source operating system based on the Windows architecture. To get a better understanding of his work, Slyck.com interviewed Alex who dispelled many of the myths surrounding his work, while also providing insight into his accomplishments."

New ReactOS Newsletter

Submitted by anonymous 2007-01-08 ReactOS 26 Comments

The new ReactOS newsletter has been published. "Currently the main development branch "trunk" even though it has many new features and bug fixes since 0.3.0, it currently has several issues that prevent it from being relatively useful. Furthermore functionality that once worked no longer does, this is called a regression. Until trunk has been reasonably fixed 0.3.1 will not be released. Be assured that the developers are working hard on fixing the current issues and bringing forth a good public release as soon as humanly possible."

New ReactOS Newsletter, Interview

Submitted by frik85 2006-12-28 ReactOS 4 Comments

Apart from a new newsletter, ReactOS has also published its sixth interview with one of the developers. Art Yerkes, born in Philadelphia, PA, USA in 1974. He's been involved with ReactOS since 2002 and contributed primarily to the keyboard code in win32k and the network code. Lately much of the work has been networking related, as well as slowly giving birth to a PowerPC architecture port.

ReactOS Weekly Newsletter Back on Track

Submitted by frik85 2006-12-13 ReactOS 3 Comments

ReactOS decided it was time to get the ReactOS weekly newsletter back on track. Today, both new newsletter authors, Dana Burkart and Samuel Serapio, are introducing themselves and sum-up recent ReactOS activity, changes since ReactOS 0.3 and write about future developer plans.

Interview: Johannes Anderwald, ReactOS Developer

Submitted by frik85 2006-12-12 ReactOS 7 Comments

ReactOS, the open source implementation of a Windows XP/2003 compatible operating system, just published a new interview in their series of interviews with ReactOS developers. Today's interview features the developer Johannes Anderwald, who has worked on source compatibility with Visual Studio Development Suite lately.

ReactOS: Intel Mac, Parallels support, New Roadmap

Submitted by frik85 2006-12-05 ReactOS 14 Comments

ReactOS, the open source implementation of a Windows XP/2003 compatible operating system, does support now Intel Mac computers with bootcamp installed and Parallels' virtual machine. Furthermore the new ReactOS roadmap has been published yesterday. Today's interview features ReactOS developer and former project coordinator, Steven Edwards. Read it all on the ReactOS website.

Interview: Magnus Olsen, ReactOS Developer

Submitted by frik85 2006-11-29 ReactOS 21 Comments

ReactOS, the open source implementation of a Windows XP/2003 compatible operating system, just published a new interview in their series of interviews with ReactOS developers. Today's interview features the main DirectX implementation developer Magnus Olsen.

Interview: Alex Ionescu, ReactOS Kernel Developer

Submitted by fireball 2006-11-21 ReactOS 29 Comments

ReactOS, the open source implementation of a Windows XP/2003 compatible operating system, just published a new interview in their series of interviews with ReactOS developers. Today's interview features the most active kernel developer Alex Ionescu.

Interview: Aleksey Bragin, ReactOS

Submitted by fireball 2006-11-15 ReactOS 27 Comments

ReactOS, the open source implementation of a Windows XP/2003 compatible operating system, is announcing a start of a series of interviews with ReactOS developers. The first published interview features the project coordinator Aleksey Bragin. The ReactOS team plans to publish interviews on a weekly basis.

Another Quickie: ReactOS

Guest post by Jeff Rollin 2006-08-31 ReactOS 32 Comments

I downloaded a few VMware images for use in VMware player. The mouse (a PS/2 type) did not work either in ReactOS or in Syllable, but did work in PC-BSD (all in VMware Player). Later, I downloaded the install-cd iso of ReactOS and burned it to a CD. The image is a tiny download (19MB uncompressed), so it didn't take long. I intended to install ReactOS on a laptop and desktop.

A Quickie: ReactOS on VMWare Player

Guest post by Leroy 2006-08-30 ReactOS 18 Comments

In the past, I've installed ReactOS to show my students a Microsoft alternative. The performance was slow and there was not much to do. This latest revision offers more! For my review, I used the freeware VMWare Player since I was using the company server. I'm the only one who knows how to use it.

ReactOS 0.3.0 Released

Thom Holwerda 2006-08-28 ReactOS 29 Comments

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."

ReactOS 0.3.0 RC3 Released

Submitted by Martin Wolper 2006-08-21 ReactOS 42 Comments

ReactOS just released version 0.3.0 RC3 of their Windows compatible operating system. Their code audit is now 94.3% complete. You can get it from their download page.

ReactOS v0.3.0 RC2 Released

Submitted by Martin Wolper 2006-08-14 ReactOS 14 Comments

ReactOS has just released version 0.3.0 RC2 of their open source Microsoft Windows-compatible operating system. They are also now 94% finished with the code audit.

ReactOS Status Report

Submitted by GreatLord 2006-07-27 ReactOS 14 Comments

The second issue of the ReactOS status reports was published today by Aleksey Bragin (ReactOS's project coordinator). It's a general overview of the last 6 months of project's progress, with some additional information and future outlook. The document is available in .doc, .rtf, Word 2003 .xml, .txt, .odt, and .pdf.

Review: ReactOS

Submitted by Slashdot 2006-07-13 ReactOS 51 Comments

NeoSmart has reviewed ReactOS. "ReactOS is a brilliant idea at heart, and it has come a long way in the past couple of years. It is integral for there to be more than one choice for alternate operating systems, since Windows isn’t the best and Linux isn’t for everyone." And yes, there are screenshots to blindely stare at too.

ReactOS 0.3.0-rc1 Released

Submitted by proftv 2006-06-18 ReactOS 50 Comments

ReactOS 0.3.0 RC1 has been released. Get it from the download page; the changelog doesn't seem up yet, so no information on any improvements. As for the code audit, it is at 90.5% complete. Read the associated Wiki page for more information.

Announcing The OSNews Alternative OS Contest

Adam Scheinberg 2006-06-16 ReactOS 64 Comments

At its core, OSNews is a site driven by interesting content about alternative Operating Systems. As such, we're introducing "OSNews Alternative OS Contest," a contest aimed at getting back to our roots and generating interest and publicity in alternative Operating Systems. Read on for the rules & prizes.

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