Originally Published 11 days ago — by Phoronix
ReactOS, an open-source Windows-like OS, marks its 30th anniversary by making significant progress towards Windows NT6 compatibility, notably syncing its MSVCRT implementation with Wine 10.0, reducing API test failures by nearly 30%, and improving application support, signaling promising developments for 2026.
Originally Published 2 years ago — by Phoronix
The ReactOS project, an open-source operating system aiming for compatibility with Windows, has made progress in improving UEFI boot, DirectX support, and compatibility with NT6+ applications. They continue to work towards providing a free software OS with driver and application compatibility with Windows Server 2003 and later versions. The project is still in development, with no release date set for ReactOS 0.4.15.
Originally Published 2 years ago — by Phoronix
ReactOS, an open-source Windows alternative, has hired a contributor to work on improving the GUI setup mode for the next five months. The project aims to provide a more user-friendly installation process by replacing the current text-based setup mode with a graphical interface. Key milestones include finishing the partial-Winesync of setupapi.dll, integrating registry settings callbacks, and adding GPT support.