Wednesday, November 12, 2008

ReactOS 0.3.7 – Project Creating an Open Source Version of Windows OS

ReactOS 0.3.7 (Windows, Open Source, 30.3MB) is an open source effort to create a Windows NT 4/2000/XP+ compatible operating system licensed under the GNU public license. In partnership with the WINE project, ReactOS also supports drivers which work under Microsoft Windows.

Changes:

  • Improved x64 architecture support
  • The start of a real MSVC compiler support project
  • Kernel improvements and bug fixes in quite a few parts: Configuration Manager, IO Manager, KE, Memory Manager, Object Manager, Process Manager
  • Network stack improvements: leakage fixes, increased functionality
  • Filesystem driver fixes, making them more compatible with the Microsoft NT cache manager
  • Win32 subsystem improvements and synching of most of the Wine usermode DLLs

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