4 Aug
2004
4 Aug
'04
4:28 p.m.
ReactOS Newsletter, July 2004
ReactOS is an Open Source project licensed under the
GNU General Public License, which aims at the high
mark of being a commercially viable alternative for
markets currently using versions of Microsoft
Windows(tm) based on the NT kernel, such as Windows NT
4, Windows 2000, and Windows XP, with full application
and driver support. While development of Reactos is
still in its early stages, great amounts of effort
have been poured into the project over the past month.
Art Yerks and Alex Ionesco have been diligently
working on ironing out all the snags with their TCP/IP
implementation, and with several other networking
related tasks. While it is still uncertain when truly
functional networking will be working under ReactOS,
the work done this month has brought that goal
tangibly closer.
Another boon this month was Structured Exception
Handling. While not terribly interesting to most
users, it is an important feature of a stable NT based
kernel, which provides a means to trap exception
faults, and prevent them from causing other problems
for the host. S.E.H is a big step toward a
functionally stable environment within ReactOS. While
work continues, ReactOS now has a crude, but
serviceable S.E.H implementation.
Other things that have received attention this month
are preliminary sound card support, a performance
rewrite of the FAT file system driver, fixes for
removable media support, and the beginnings of
porting WINE's DirectX implementation, in addition to
a multitude of compatibility and bug fixes.
For more information, please visit the ReactOS
homepage at HTTP://WWW.ReactOS.COM . Feel free to
visit us on our FreeNode IRC channel, #Reactos, or on
our mailing lists. We look forward to hearing from
you!
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