I have yet to see drivers/hardware that requires Vista+.<div><br clear="all">Best regards,<br>Alex Ionescu<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Bernd Blaauw <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:bblaauw@home.nl">bblaauw@home.nl</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

Op <a href="tel:3-10-2011" value="+13102011" target="_blank">3-10-2011</a> 19:01, Zachary Gorden schreef:<div class="im"><br>
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kernel target.  With these considerations, the project has decided to<br>
set both the user and kernel targets to Windows 2003.  Dependency on<br>
Wine for many user mode libraries actually complicates this, as Wine has<br>
been adding Vista and later APIs without proper segregation and the<br>
developers will need to figure out how to deal with this in the long run.<br>
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Limiting things to 2003 might work, with the exception of DirectX, hardware drivers and silly stuff like UEFI and GPT<br>
[ <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463525.aspx" target="_blank">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-<u></u>us/windows/hardware/gg463525.<u></u>aspx</a> ].<br>
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In other words you&#39;ll get in trouble as people want to test ReactOS against their own (modern) hardware system (due to drivers focusing on Vista/7/8), and see if ReactOS can run their games.<br>
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Nonetheless, good thing you lot are able to make up your mind and sticking to a argumented majority decision.<br>
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thanks for the minutes.<br>
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