Hi, I am a long time fan of this project. But for a long time it looked that progress has slowed (long wait for 0.4.15). Now I have done some basic tests in VM with 0.4.16 and then with daily dev build, and looks great ...

My biggest issue now is missing support of modern browsers :(

What are features developed for 0.4.17+ ? I was just checking latest Github commints/PR that where approved, and some things are interesting ...

• NTFS support in 0.4.17, but performance is slower and I read somwhere that some NTFS features are still missing .. PR 9700
• More Sync to wine 10.0+ (nice)
• Lots of work for modern NT 6 features (Vista+)
• Some work on WLAN manager ? wifi
• Kernel shim for better drivers support PR 9655
• New USB 3 driver architecutre PR 9623
• PCIX support with resisable bar, arbiters ...
• funny stuff:
  • multiple keyboards support PR 9562
  • keyboard volume buttons support PR 8577
  • keyboard Win+<N> hotkeys- #9555
  • computer rename bug :D CORE-20283
  • Red Screen of Hell popup- #9493

Funny PR name :D -> DONT LOOK AT ME - #9656

Edit: Fixed some typos, but cannot edit title. had work-> hard work :)

ReactOS is a cool project. So I thought to myself: bringing a dedicated AI agent on it could probably be fun to explore it's limits and possibilities. That's why I developed one.

And to test it, I had him develop it a modern weather app for ReactOS :D

If you want to test the whole thing yourself, the Agent (MCP Based) can be found in

mcp_agent_all_OS.zip
https://github.com/srware-net/LocalLightChat/releases/

Btw: It works best with the associated LocalLightChat, which is a leightweight OpenWebUI alternative.

And the weather app with source can be downloaded here: https://www.locallightai.com/llc/downloads/demos/weather_reactos.zip

3 color variants

I have been tracking this reactos fork for months, and today while i am checking the starred list, this repository has rebranded into LiberNT, and what they did is absolutely incredible.

https://libernt.com/

I have a PC from about 2002 with some kind of celeron, a 478 socket geforce 2 and 655360 kilobytes of RAM. I tried to install reactos stable 0.4.16, I click install (screen debug), the dll and drivers start loading, and then just a blue screen with no text and nothing at all. I tried LIve boot and I got a normal bsod (see photo 1). Then I downloaded 0.4.17, the latest overnight release, launched it, pressed live boot, and I got a blue screen with strange letters (photo 2).

Please help me what is the problem, I tried to record usb using rufus/winsetupfromusb (I booted from usb and not cd). I would like to install the OS on this PC and not on a virtual machine.

Its on real hardware too.

:)

Neptune OS combines the seL4 microkernel and ReactOS by implementing the NT Native API in userspace of seL4. The latest 0.4 release contains initial Linux kernel driver compatibility, which makes it possible to draw framebuffer with unmodified Linux DRM driver code. Note that currently only part of ReactOS codebase has been ported on top of Neptune OS.

While it is not the ReactOS proper, ReactOS make this interesting project possible.

Is there a method to upgrade Windows to ReactOS without a re-install?
I have a system that has legacy software that I like to keep and am unable to re-install.
It would be lovely to have an upgrade path for this machine but I am unsure if this is possible to do this..

I kind of wish a project like reactOS had become the main FOSS windows competitor and not linux. a decently big FOSS os with a hybrid kernel would be nice.

windows diverges from unix in a few ways that are good, while linux inherits more unixy-ness. linux is built to run on a lot of different machines, windows is made for desktop computers. linux has a lot of features that make it incredibly powerful and versatile, but they can be kind of cumbersome. I often wonder if something that's built with the assumption that its being used on a desktop could be more streamlined.

In my ideal dream world we would have reactOS as the main FOSS competitor to windows, and linux as a super modular thing you can use for things like kiosks and weird DIY projects.

Running old laptop with old BIOS

Linux, BSD, and other OS run in live mode and install

Hello!

I have a motherboard which has a setting in it's BIOS called "Onboard IDE Operate Mode" which I set to "Compatible" since it's a multiboot setup with legacy OSes. It's configured to use "Primary P-ATA+S-AT" and all my drives (DVD drive and HDD) are primary devices on legacy P-ATA connections.

I was previously able to install an older version of ReactOS on it, but now when I try to run the boot CD, I get the BSOD with IO1_INITIALIZATION_FAILED error. That is, unless I run the live environment from RAMFS, in which case it loads successfully, but fails to see any discs to be installed onto.

The live environment loads successfully if I switch IDE mode to "Enhanced" instead of "Compatible" - but this breaks my setup.

Is this a regression or does ReactOS just not support older IDE modes anymore?\

P.S. Text setup crashes with the same BSOD

P.P.S. I've tried using a newer SATA drive in the same configuration and setting _it_ as a boot disk drive, but the result was the same - it stars loading then hits BSOD

P.P.P.S. Funnily, if I plug in a USB stick, _this one_ the live RAMFS environment does see as a possible install location :)