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Five most important year results of ReactOS development
ReactOS is an open source operating system designed to be compatible with Windows XP (and later) apps. It’s been in development for nearly two decades (it actually predates Windows 2000 and grew out of a project called FreeWin95) and it’s still very much a work in progress.
Just five most important changes in ReactOS project in 2014
1. The new ReactOS Explorer is much more compatible, stable, and comes with more features than the current (and now old) explorer. We expect it to be a big quality jump in terms of usability, and the rockstar feature of the upcoming 0.4 release. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr_UXs83nQ0
2. ReactOS can now read files from NTFS volumes on a hard drive. Pierre Schweitzer of ReactOS shared, "ReactOS now supports reading files from NTFS volume. This was a long awaited feature people were asking for." A new ReactOS ISO re-spin is now available containing this support. http://reboot.pro/topic/20149-ntfs-now-supported-in-reactos-livecd/
3. ReactOS 0.3.17 was released with an early build of NTVDM, a tool that adds support for 16-bit Windows apps for folks that want to run legacy software. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xpqP5R-oZs
4 .Also huge bunch of font problems was fixed making possible to run without problems Gimp, Wireshark , Java, Winrar and IntelliJ IDEA. https://jira.reactos.org/browse/CORE-4657
https://jira.reactos.org/browse/CORE-8525
5. Ramdrive and PXE-network boot is now supported by ReactOS. Welcome ReactOS to the world of computers and netbooks without harddisk/cdrom
http://reboot.pro/topic/20149-ntfs-now-supported-in-reactos-livecd/
- arkadiy 12y agoPXE-network! Will try!
- alexanderrex 12y agoPXE, nice. iSCSI, as I understand it, has not yet been provided?
- paravozoff 12y agoNot really been following the project ReactOS, whether it supports the rdp-client (and which version)? ie theoretically from it can get a good thin client?
- dexter86 12y agoAbout new Explorer I will risk to be blameworthy, but how good is "classic". None ClassicShell does not give such a sense of the familiar and intuitive interface, where everything is familiar. Under Win9x, 2k always infuriated monsters such as Aston, Talisman Desktop, WindowBlinds. How now dream of such an alternative shell for Win7-Win8 (Where it is even more in demand).
- dang 12y agoAstroturfing and sockpuppets are not allowed on Hacker News. Please don't tarnish good work by doing this.