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Gordon Darling
http://reactos.com/
ReactOS is an Open Source effort to develop a quality operating
system that is compatible with Windows NT applications and drivers.
Relationship with the WINE project
ReactOS has always planned to work with the WINE project
to share as much programming effort as possible.
This will mainly concern User Mode DLLs and will happen
once ReactOS's Kernel Mode areas are more complete, as those areas form
the underlying infrastructure. Other areas of cooperation lie in
applications and testing suites.
Future compatibility
The ReactOS project, although currently focused on Windows
NT 4.0 compatibility, is always keeping an eye towards compatibility with
future Windows NT releases, that is, Windows 2000 (NT 5.0) and Windows XP
(NT 5.1).
Supporting other System Applications
The Windows NT architecture allows for subsystems, as does the ReactOS
architecture. A subsystem is an implementation of the APIs of another
operating system, allowing ReactOS to run applications from other systems.
We are already looking at subsystems for: Java, OS/2 and DOS and possibly
others in the future.
ReactOS 0.1.4 has been released. This release was created using a
week-long branch for fixes only - followed up by several days of a code
feeze for testing. The release itself features Plug n Play improvements,
better GUI controls (especially scrollbars and static controls), better
mouse button handling, the beginning of OpenGL support, extensive work on
a PC Net driver as well as an improved NDIS driver, the serial mouse
driver was almost rewritten and there is now partial support for the
intellimouse along with better SCSI support (SCSI devices initialized
using 3rd party drivers).
Regards
Gordon
ReactOS is an Open Source effort to develop a quality operating
system that is compatible with Windows NT applications and drivers.
Relationship with the WINE project
ReactOS has always planned to work with the WINE project
to share as much programming effort as possible.
This will mainly concern User Mode DLLs and will happen
once ReactOS's Kernel Mode areas are more complete, as those areas form
the underlying infrastructure. Other areas of cooperation lie in
applications and testing suites.
Future compatibility
The ReactOS project, although currently focused on Windows
NT 4.0 compatibility, is always keeping an eye towards compatibility with
future Windows NT releases, that is, Windows 2000 (NT 5.0) and Windows XP
(NT 5.1).
Supporting other System Applications
The Windows NT architecture allows for subsystems, as does the ReactOS
architecture. A subsystem is an implementation of the APIs of another
operating system, allowing ReactOS to run applications from other systems.
We are already looking at subsystems for: Java, OS/2 and DOS and possibly
others in the future.
ReactOS 0.1.4 has been released. This release was created using a
week-long branch for fixes only - followed up by several days of a code
feeze for testing. The release itself features Plug n Play improvements,
better GUI controls (especially scrollbars and static controls), better
mouse button handling, the beginning of OpenGL support, extensive work on
a PC Net driver as well as an improved NDIS driver, the serial mouse
driver was almost rewritten and there is now partial support for the
intellimouse along with better SCSI support (SCSI devices initialized
using 3rd party drivers).
Regards
Gordon