ReactOS 0.3.10

ReactOS® is a free, modern operating system based on the design of Windows® XP/2003. Written completely from scratch, it aims to follow the Windows-NT® architecture designed by Microsoft from the hardware level right through to the application level. This is not a Linux based system, and shares none of the unix architecture.

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.

Along with the rest of the 0.3 series, this release is still considered alpha quality software so it may not run all your apps or run on your hardware.

Changes summary

A detailed consolidation of all changes can be found in the changelog. A sum up of some of the more important changes is as follows:

• Fixed inability to work with partitions bigger than 8Gb
• Added possibility of installing into any of four primary partitions
• Initial support for SerialATA controllers along with enhanced ATA support
• Initial USB keyboards and mice support
• Greatly improved network cards support (20 different NICs were tested successfully)
• Increased stability in networking
• A clone of MS paint application has been introduced
• Initial support for MSVC compilation
• Better cleanup of system resource usage
• Synchronization of most of the Wine usermode DLLs and some Win32 subsystem code shared with Wine

Official Website: http://www.reactos.org/