ReactOS 0.3.6

Publisher's Description:

ReactOS 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.

Latest Changes:

• More architectures support: ARM version improvements, beginnings of x64 architecture support
• FreeLdr's memory requirements for ReactOS bootup were reduced
• Driver unloading now possible
• Numerous kernel fixes and improvements (APC delivery issues, timer issues, lots of work on architecture-independent parts of the memory manager)
• More Win32 applications are supported now thanks to the fix in the RTL heap implementation (e.g. InnoSetup-based installers, Delphi applications, etc)
• Network stack bug fixes and memory leaks elimination
• Win32 subsystem improvements, most of usermode DLLs synced with Wine

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Latest User Reviews:

Reviewer:	pforbes	Aug 8, 2008
Version:	0.3.6
Excellent work given it is the first step to approach Linux to Windows users by using an autonomous OS. As we all come from Microsoft culture, IMO this is the right direction. Good luck!
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Reviewer:	God Dammit	Aug 8, 2008
Version:	0.3.6
@DJGM Windows XP and Vista both use NTFS 3.1. You're referring to the bootloader code in the boot sector of the Windows partition. Windows XP (aka Windows 5.x) uses NTLDR while Vista (aka Windows 6) uses BOOTMGR. In any case, with projects like Wine around ReactOS is a complete waste of time. Nobody wants a cheap lookalike of Microsoft Windows. The people who use Linux are generally people who don't like Microsoft Windows for one reason or another.
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Reviewer:	DJGM	Aug 7, 2008
Version:	0.3.6
@ oomingmak . . . NTFS v5.2 is used in Windows Server 2003 and 64bit XP NTFS v6.0 is used in Windows Server 2008 and Vista. ===== The ReactOS project may be taking a long time to reach its ultimate goal of building a totally open source clone of Windows, written entirely from the ground up, but that's to be expected, given what's involved. I believe it'll eventually be good enough for everyday use. It may never topple Windows itself as the most widely used OS, but it has the potential to be as stable and useable as Windows XP is now by the time MS has finally killed off all support for its venerable OS.
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Reviewer:	madmike	Aug 7, 2008
Version:	0.3.6
Credit to the people for working hard on this, but I cant see the point of it?? might be labour in vain.
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Reviewer:	the artist	Jul 1, 2008
Version:	0.3.5
...aaaaaand it will be in crawling speed development till 2050 when pc's won't exist anymore... Fantastic! yeh, go linux!
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