• 30 years of ReactOS

    From LWN.net@1337:1/100 to All on Thursday, January 22, 2026 14:30:08
    30 years of ReactOS

    Date:
    Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:28:36 +0000

    Description:
    ReactOS , an open-source project
    to develop an operating system that is compatible with Microsoft
    Windows NT applications and drivers, is celebrating 30
    years since the first commit to its source tree. In that time
    there have been more than 88,000 commits from 301 contributors, for a
    total of 14,929,578 lines of code. There is, of course, much left to
    do. It's been such a long journey that many of our contributors today, including myself, were not alive during this event. Yet our mission to
    deliver "your favorite Windows apps and drivers in an open-source
    environment you can trust" continues to bring people together. [...] We're continuing to move ReactOS forward. Behind the scenes there are
    several out-of-tree projects in development. Some of these exciting
    projects include a new build environment for developers (RosBE), a new
    NTFS driver, a new ATA driver, multi-processor (SMP) support, support
    for class 3 UEFI systems, kernel and usermode address space layout randomization (ASLR), and support for modern GPU drivers built on
    WDDM.

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    Link to news story:
    https://lwn.net/Articles/1055485/


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