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ReactOS Hackfest in Aachen

by fireball

September 1, 2015

Day -1 (5th of August) As Aleksey arrived well before the hackfest started, Colin was kind enough to show the city in its full glory on a very hot day: the cathedral, springs, restaurants and cafes, and definitely the RWTH university buildings spread across the city. The most relevant was the temporary seminar building where a large room was dedicated for the Hackfest. It turned out to be a clean and modern equipped building which is indeed temporary and will be demolished once the real building is finished, so ReactOS is not the only one to utilize temporary hacks until full implementation is done :).

ReactOS as a second OS in Russian government's software freedom effort

by fireball

June 19, 2015

The Russian Federation along with the BRICS nations are pursuing measures to rid vendor lock-in of strategically important software (http://minsvyaz.ru/en/events/33237/) and substitute such software with free/open software (http://minsvyaz.ru/en/events/32967/). As such an initiative would provide considerable benefits beyond that of any singular agenda, Aleksey Bragin decided to take part in that on behalf of ReactOS Foundation. Since October 2014 he has been a member of the Operating Systems workgroup formed by the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications (so-called "

ReactOS 0.3.14 Released

by fireball

February 8, 2012

The ReactOS team is proud to announce the release of ReactOS 0.3.14. This version includes a significant amount of changes including both user visible and architectural improvements. Also included in this release is the valuable work accomplished as part of the Google Summer of Code 2011 event, of which ReactOS was a mentoring project. One of the more significant sets of improvements was to ReactOS’ networking stack. As part of the GSoC, ReactOS gained a new TCP/IP driver built around the LwIP project.

ReactOS 0.3.13 Released

by fireball

March 22, 2011

The ReactOS team is proud to announce the release of ReactOS 0.3.13. This version continues building on the work first previewed in 0.3.12, ranging from memory management improvements to better sound and display control. A Coverity scan also occurred between 0.3.12 and 0.3.13, helping the team clean up potential security holes and also help improve general stability by enforcing more care in memory operations. Some of the biggest system changes happened with memory management with the introduction of a new heap manager based on the Windows 2003/Vista architecture, significantly increasing ReactOS’ compatibility with advanced memory allocation types and providing proper kernel mode heap management used by win32k.

ReactOS 0.3.12 Released

by fireball

October 20, 2010

The ReactOS team is proud to announce the release of ReactOS 0.3.12. This is a huge release for the team, not just with regards to the number of improvements which this release holds but in terms of the leap forward architecturally, stability wise and in bringing some of the more modern aspects of the NT kernel into ReactOS. It's been almost a year since the last release and whilst this is understandably excessive, it was required to stabilize the OS due to the nature of the work which was undertaken.

ReactOS 0.3.10 Released

by fireball

July 5, 2009

ReactOS 0.3.10 Released The ReactOS team is proud to announce the release of ReactOS 0.3.10. This version is the first to use the Universal ATA driver as the default disk driver, adding support for Serial ATA and partitions greater than 8GB. In addition, recent work was done on the USB stack to increase compatibility with USB keyboards and mice. These features are still under heavy development and have several known bugs, but their inclusion should allow more people to run ReactOS on real hardware and are part of the extensive work to make ReactOS usable as an every day operating system.

ReactOS 0.3.8, FOSDEM 2009

by fireball

February 4, 2009

ReactOS 0.3.8 Released Our development team is proud to present a new version of ReactOS, a Windows®-compatible operating system. It has been three months since the 0.3.7 release date. Much of the work has been done and only some minor changes remain in order to make the release cycle faster and less time consuming for developers and release engineers. Besides development of the operating system, a number of organizational and administrative changes were done to make the development process easier and more enjoyable.

Soft of the Year Award

by fireball

December 19, 2008

"Soft of the Year 2008" Award "Soft of the Year 2008" is a national Russian software award given annually to the best computer software. Winners in seven different categories are selected by results of people's voting (carried out by Mail.Ru). ReactOS won second place in the "Technologies" category. Thanks to everyone who supported us!

ReactOS 0.3.7

by fireball

November 5, 2008

ReactOS 0.3.7 Released Version 0.3.7 got delayed due to a couple of blocker bugs, however they are fixed now and we are ready to release. This release along with the rest of the 0.3.x series is still considered alpha quality software. ReactOS 0.3.7 continues further work on the main three principles of current ReactOS development: bugfixes, compatibility and stability. Changes summaryA consolidation of all changes in great details can be found in the changelog.

ReactOS 0.3.6

by fireball

August 6, 2008

ReactOS 0.3.6 Released In a little over a month since version 0.3.5, we are announcing the release ReactOS 0.3.6. This release along with the rest of the 0.3.x series is still considered alpha quality software, so do not set your expectations too high. ReactOS 0.3.6 is the product of the current development focus: bugfixes, compatibility, and stability. There were more than a thousand commits to the ReactOS Subversion repository this month.

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