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+
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+ReactOS is available thanks to the work of
+
+Emanuele Aliberti <ea(a)iol.it>
+Robert Bergkvist <fragdance(a)hotmail.com>
+Hartmut Birr <hartmut.birr(a)gmx.de>
+Aleksey Bragin <aleksey(a)studiocerebral.com>
+Richard Campbell <betam4x(a)gmail.com>
+Gunnar Andre' Dalsnes <hardon(a)online.no>
+Arindam Das
+Boudewijn Dekker <ariadne(a)xs4all.nl>
+Robert Dickenson <robd(a)reactos.org>
+Marty Dill <mdill(a)uvic.ca>
+Jason Eager
+Steven Edwards <steven_ed4153(a)yahoo.com>
+Iwan Fatahi <i_fatahi(a)hotmail.com>
+Jason Filby <jasonfilby(a)yahoo.com>
+Martin Fuchs <martin-fuchs(a)gmx.net>
+Jurgen van Gael <jurgen.vangael(a)student.kuleuven.ac.be>
+Ge van Geldorp <ge(a)gse.nl>
+Andrew Greenwood <lists(a)silverblade.co.uk>
+Casper S. Hornstrup <chorns(a)users.sourceforge.net>
+KJK::Hyperion <noog(a)libero.it>
+Eugene Ingerman <geneing(a)myrealbox.com>
+Rex Jolliff <rex(a)lvcablemodem.com>
+Guido de Jong
+Victor Kirhenshtein <sauros(a)iname.com>
+Eric Kohl <ekohl(a)rz-online.de>
+Hans Kremer
+Frederik Leemans
+Jean Michault
+Royce Mitchell III <royce3(a)ev1.net>
+Filip Navara <xnavara(a)volny.cz>
+Jim Noeth
+Mike Nordell ("tamlin")
+Hernan Ochoa
+Brian Palmer <brianp(a)sginet.com>
+Paolo Pantaleo <paolopan(a)freemail.it>
+Matt Pyne
+Phillip Susi <phreak(a)iag.net>
+James B. Tabor <jimtabor(a)adsl-64-217-116-74.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net>
+Mark Tempel <mtempel(a)visi.com>
+Vizzini <vizzini(a)plasmic.com>
+Mark Weaver <mark(a)npsl.co.uk>
+Thomas Weidenmueller <w3seek(a)users.sourceforge.net>
+Jason Weiler
+David Welch <welch(a)cwcom.net>
+Jonathan Wilson <jonwil(a)tpgi.com.au>
+Art Yerkes <ayerkes(a)speakeasy.net>
+Magnus Olsen (magnus(a)greatlord.com)
+Brandon Turner (turnerb7(a)msu.edu)
+Christoph von Wittich (Christoph(a)ApiViewer.de)
+
+Graphic Design from
+
+Everaldo (http://everaldo.com) for Explorer icons
+
+Source and inspiration from
+
+WINE (http://www.winehq.com)
+WinFree (http://www.stack.nl/~onno/win32/)
+Linux (http://www.kernel.org)
+XFree86 (http://www.xfree86.org/)
+
+References (Rex's at least)
+
+Baker, Art. The Windows NT Device Driver Book. Prentice Hall, 1997.
+Borate, Dabak & Phadke. Undocumented Windows NT. M&T Books, 1999.
+Brain, Marshall. Win32 System Services. Prentice Hall, 1996.
+Cant, Chris. Writing Windows WDM Device Drivers. R&D Books, 1999.
+Canton & Sanchez. IBM Microcomputers: A Programmer's Handbook. McGraw
Hill, 1990.
+Davis & Wallace. Windows Undocumented File Formats. R&D Books, 1997.
+Mason & Viscarola. Windows NT Device Driver Development. Macmillan,
1999.
+Mitchell, Stan. Inside the Windows 95 File System. O'Reilly, 1997.
+Murray, James D. Windows NT Event Logging. O'Reilly, 1998.
+Nagar, Rajeev. Windows NT File System Internals. O'Reilly, 1997.
+Osbourne, Sandra. Windows NT Registry: A Settings Reference. New
Riders, 1998.
+Pietrek, Matt. Windows 95 System Programming Secrets. IDG, 1995.
+Richter, Jeffery. Advanced Windows, 3rd ed. Microsoft, 1997.
+Simon, Richard J. Windows NT Win32 API Superbible. Waite Group, 1996.
+Solomon, David A. Inside Windows NT, 2nd Ed. Microsoft, 1998.
+"The NT Insider." Open Systems Resources, 1999-2000.
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+1. Build environment
+
+To build the system you need either mingw32 installed on Windows or a
mingw32
+cross compiler running on unix.
+
+
+2. Building ReactOS
+
+2.1 Building the binaries
+
+To build ReactOS run 'make' (wihout the quotes) if you are building on
Linux
+or 'mingw32-make' if you are building on Windows (or ReactOS) from the
top
+directory.
+
+
+2.2 Building a bootable CD image
+
+To build a bootable CD image run 'make bootcd' (wihout the quotes) if
you are
+building on Linux or 'mingw32-make bootcd' if you are building on
Windows (or
+ReactOS) from the top directory. This will create a CD image with a
filename,
+ReactOS.iso, in the top directory.
+
+
+3. Installation
+
+ReactOS can only be installed on a machine that has a FAT16 or FAT32
partition
+as the active (bootable) partition. The partition on which ReactOS is
to be
+installed (which may or may not be the bootable partition) must also be
+formatted as FAT16 or FAT32. ReactOS Setup can format the partitions if
+needed.
+
+ReactOS can be installed from the source distribution or from the
bootable CD
+distribution. The two ways to install ReactOS are explained below.
+
+
+3.1 Installation from sources
+
+If you don't have an existing ReactOS installation you want to upgrade,
then
+build a bootable CD as described above. Burn the CD image, boot from
it, and
+follow the instructions to install ReactOS.
+
+If you have an existing ReactOS installation you want to upgrade, then
to
+install ReactOS after building it, type 'make install' or
+'mingw32-make install'. This will create the directory 'reactos' in the
top
+directory. Copy the contents of this directory over the existing
installation.
+
+If you don't want to copy the files manually every time you run a
+'make install' or 'mingw32-make install', then you can specify the
directory
+where the files are to be copied to during installation.
+
+Set the ROS_INSTALL environment variable. If you are on Windows this
could be
+done by:
+
+  set ROS_INSTALL=c:\reactos
+
+If you are on Linux this could be done by:
+
+  export ROS_INSTALL=/mnt/windows/reactos
+
+Now run 'make install' or 'mingw32-make install' to install the files
to the
+new location.
+
+
+3.2 Installation from bootable CD distribution
+
+To install ReactOS from the bootable CD distribution, extract the
archive
+contents. Then burn the CD image, boot from it, and follow
instructions.
+
+
+5. Help
+
+If you run into problems or have suggestions for making ReactOS better,
please
+visit the address below. Mailing lists are available for a variety of
topics, 
+bugs should be submitted to bugzilla and general chat takes place in
the forums, 
+or #reactos on freenode
+
+http://www.reactos.org
+
+ReactOS Development Team
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Added: trunk/reactos/LGPL.txt
--- trunk/reactos/LGPL.txt	2006-01-30 19:37:25 UTC (rev 49)
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+========================
+ReactOS Version 0.2.x
+Updated June 23rd, 2004
+========================
+
+1. What is ReactOS?
+
+   ReactOS is an Open Source effort to develop a quality operating
system
+that is compatible with Windows NT applications and drivers.
+
+   The ReactOS project, although currently focused on Windows NT 4.0
+compatibility, is always keeping an eye towards compatibility with
+future Windows NT releases, that is, Windows 2000 (NT 5.0) and
+Windows XP (NT 5.1).
+
+More information is available at http://www.reactos.com.
+
+2. Building ReactOS
+
+See the INSTALL file for more details.
+
+3. More information
+
+See the doc subdirectory for some sparse notes
+
+4. Who is responsible
+
+See the CREDITS file
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