Parallel to this effort was more basic work needed to expose the option to use BTRFS in the ReactOS installer and bootloader. WinBtrfs on the other hand came with no such baggage to its history and instead made full use of the documented NT filesystem driver API. Those that the project uses internally have all gone through enough iterations that gaps in ReactOS are worked around.
#Browser support for reactos drivers#
The filesystem stack in ReactOS is arguably one of the less mature components by simple dint of there being so few open source NT filesystem drivers to test against. While the actual filesystem driver itself is from the WinBtrfs project by Mark Harmstone, much of Victor’s work was in filling out the bits and pieces of ReactOS that the driver expected to interact with. The work enabling this was part of this year’s Google Summer of Code with student developer Victor Perevertkin. The headline feature for 0.4.10 would have to be ReactOS’ ability to now boot from a BTRFS formatted drive. Even as new pieces of functionality are added, all this would be for naught if a user could not access them reliably. The project has seen an increasing emphasis on consistency and stability over the past few months, an emphasis the rapid release schedule helps reinforce to provide a better end-user experience. The ReactOS project is pleased to announce the release of version 0.4.10, the latest of our quarterly cadence of releases. De changelog voor deze uitgave kan hier worden gevonden, dit zijn de release notes: ReactOS 0.4.10 released Op deze pagina kunnen enkele screenshots van ReactOS worden bekeken.
Hoewel er al veel software probleemloos op draait, waaronder LibreOffice, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird en diverse spellen, verkeert het hele project volgens de ontwikkelaars nog in het alfastadium en is het niet geschikt voor dagelijks gebruik. Het React Operating System is een opensource besturingssysteem dat als doelstelling heeft om compatibel te zijn met Windows NT, 2000 en XP, zodat er Windows-applicaties en -drivers op gedraaid kunnen worden.
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