ReactOS 0.3.4 (Default branch) |
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ReactOS is an advanced operating system providing a ground-up implementation of a Microsoft Windows XP compatible operating system. It aims to achieve complete binary compatibility with both applications and device drivers meant for NT and XP operating systems by using a similar architecture and providing a complete and equivalent public interface.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The Cm (Config Manager a.k.a. registry support) in
ntoskrnl was completely rewritten. This makes it
much more compatible with NT5.2 (win2k3). A
plug-n-play keyboard and mouse driver was added.
All usermode DLLs were synchronized with the most
recent Wine release. Support for RPC and IDL
(which was quite outdated and buggy) was finally
brought up to date, providing a solution for the
plug-n-play manager problems, ReactOS Services,
and promising future support for complex
applications such as Microsoft Office. Huge
improvements were made to user32, which now uses
the desktop heap, greatly speeding up the UI.
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