ReactOS – OSnews

ReactOS 0.2.8 Released

Submitted by TwoTailedFox 2005-10-31 ReactOS 42 Comments

ReactOS is an open-source Operating System designed to be compatible with Windows NT. Version 0.2.8 sees the culmination of months of work since 0.2.7, and sees the project coming closer to the long-awaited 0.3.0 release.

ReactOS 0.3 SVN Shows Promise

Submitted by David Nordenberg 2005-09-29 ReactOS 66 Comments

The ReactOS website has been completely redesigned. That in itself won't get your panties in a twist, however, the screenshots section might. They show just how far ReactOS has come: OpenOffice.org 1.1.4, MS Office 2003's setup, Unreal Tournament, Deus Ex, Flash Player, and much more. Note that some of those apps will only run in the latest SVN version.

ReactOS 0.2.7 Released

Submitted by shaen 2005-08-22 ReactOS 35 Comments

ReactOS 0.2.7 has been released. The ReactOS homepage hasn't been updated yet to reflect the release, but you can download it from their SourceForge page. You can get a live-CD, install CD and a Qemu-image. Update: screenshots.

ReactOS 0.2.6 is out with screenshots

Submitted by Peter 2005-04-10 ReactOS 49 Comments

ReactOS 0.2.6 is out. Look at the changelog. Screenshots you will find here, here and here.

ReactOS 0.2.5 Released

Submitted by Joseph Childrose 2005-01-06 ReactOS 17 Comments

New ReactOS release includes "huge improvements in general and networking and stability" and will be the last 0.2.x release. See the changelog.

Splash – Official ReactOS Newsletter

Guest post by Zach Tong 2004-11-21 ReactOS 14 Comments

I would like to announce the arrival of a newsletter for the ReactOS operating system. It covers and summarizes the activities on IRC, the mailing lists, and CVS. Splash will come out on a roughly bi-weekly basis, sometimes weekly.

Ekush Emulator And its License Pains

Submitted by Steven Edwards 2004-11-10 ReactOS 13 Comments

Some have claimed to release a product called Ekush a Windows replacement Operating System. The problem is that it uses code from ReactOS, Wine, Qemu and Freetype without obeying the GPL or LGPL that ReactOS and Wine use as their license.

ReactOS 0.2.4 released

Submitted by tgc 2004-09-14 ReactOS 5 Comments

ReactOS 0.2.4 has been released, and is downloadable from sourceforge.

ReactOS Concept is More Promise Than Production

Eugenia Loli 2004-07-14 ReactOS 24 Comments

"ReactOS is an open source (GPL) operating system built to be compatible with Windows NT applications and drivers. ReactOS is currently just a development platform; it is not a useful desktop system for the average user in any way, but it has potential." Read the review at NewsForge.

ReactOS 0.2.3 Released

Submitted by Jason Filby 2004-06-28 ReactOS 8 Comments

This ReactOS release features the new LiveCD image, improved and more stable kernel and win32k kernel graphics subsystem, lots of networking foundation work, improved setup and better bundled explorer, command shell and drivers. Also included is newly ported user DLL code from WINE.

Steven Edwards of ReactOS interviewed by WineHQ

Submitted by KJK::Hyperion 2004-05-27 ReactOS 6 Comments

Steven Edwards from the ReactOS project talks about ReactOS, Wine and Samba-TNG.

ReactOS 0.2.2 Released

Submitted by SH 2004-04-27 ReactOS 21 Comments

ReactOS, the open source operating system which is compatible with Windows NT/2000 applications and drivers has been released.

ReactOS 0.2.2 RC-1 Available

Submitted by anonymous 2004-04-20 ReactOS 25 Comments

ReactOS 0.2.2 RC-1 is out. Many screenshots of the CVS version are available here.

ReactOS 0.2.1 is out

Submitted by Freddy 2004-03-04 ReactOS 21 Comments

ReactOS, the GPLed WinNT-clone, is now in version 0.2.1 and out (changelog).

ReactOS gets a Spiegel Article

Submitted by Matthias Toth 2004-02-23 ReactOS No Comments

There is a (German) article in the online edition to the largest and longest running political magazine of Germany, the "Spiegel", about ReactOS. Definetely good publicity for the OSS hobby OS.

A Glance at ReactOS 0.2

Submitted by Gsurface 2004-02-14 ReactOS 22 Comments

ReactOS 0.2 was released recently and this time it sports a new GUI. This short review with screenshots, shows some of the new improvements in this release. A huge improvement is that this release of ReactOS has some Win32 compatibility being able to run Solitaire and Winamp.

ReactOS 0.2 Final released

Submitted by Jason Filby 2004-01-25 ReactOS 50 Comments

ReactOS 0.2 Final is now available. ReactOS is an Open Source operating system that aims to be compatible with Microsoft(R) Windows(R) applications and drivers. The main functionality change is that of booting into the graphical ROS Explorer. The changelog details the complete list of changes for this release and screenshots are available.

ReactOS 0.2 RC 1 Released

Submitted by Michael Zandstra 2004-01-17 ReactOS 14 Comments

ReactOS 0.2 RC1 has been released. The 0.2 release has the goal of booting into a functional Explorer.exe - replacing the default of a text command line interface. The final release should be on the 25th of January. The release features more additions and fixes than the ability to boot into explorer. For a complete listing, view the release changelog.

Screenshot of full ReactOS desktop

Submitted by Juan Linietsky 2003-12-20 ReactOS 46 Comments

This message was posted in the ReactOS mailing list: "For those of you who haven't followed the progress with Explorer closely, take a look here. This screenshot was taken with current CVS and Filip's Wine DLL snapshot here. There are still many stability problems (lots of multi-threading issues), unimplemented and buggy ReactOS features, but all in all we're much better shape than I had expected to be at this point in time. If we can keep up this pace, 0.2 will be on time (before WineConf) and will rock!" UPDATE: Quake2 running on ReactOS.

Captive: NTFS Read/Write Filesystem Addon for Linux

Submitted by Kinh Luan Nguyen 2003-12-04 ReactOS 5 Comments

Captive is a project to create a wrapper around Microsoft's ntfs.sys driver that allows linux users to get read-write access to their NTFS partitions. They are using WINE and ReactOS code to emulate parts of Windows environment needed to make the driver work.

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