diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 562785073a6..73ea943e487 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ There are several ways to contribute to the development of ReactOS. The most oft - [Where To Start?](#where-to-start?) **Legal notice:** If you have seen Microsoft Windows source code, your contribution won't be accepted because of potential copyright violation. Before contributing, you must affirm that the following is true: ->I hereby swear that I have not used nor seen the source code to any version of the Windows operating system ->nor any Microsoft product that may be related to the proposed project that is under a license incompatible +>I hereby swear that I have not used nor seen the source code to any version of the Windows operating system +>nor any Microsoft product that may be related to the proposed project that is under a license incompatible >with contribution to ReactOS, including but not limited to the leaked Windows 2000 source code and the Windows Research Kernel. ## What To Do? @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Since our [migration to GitHub] we gladly accept __[Pull Requests]__. Pull reque ### Patches -A __[patch]__ is a set of changes to existing source code. The changes in a patch can be merged into existing source code. This process is referred to as applying a patch (to source code). Which changes a patch contains and the way the patch is structured can have significant impact on the consequences that can happen from applying the patch. +A __[patch]__ is a set of changes to existing source code. The changes in a patch can be merged into existing source code. This process is referred to as applying a patch (to source code). Which changes a patch contains and the way the patch is structured can have significant impact on the consequences that can happen from applying the patch. See [Submitting Patches] for details. diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS index a5f36cb7e2d..f085df8cc22 100644 --- a/CREDITS +++ b/CREDITS @@ -44,11 +44,11 @@ Jason Eager Jason Filby Jason Weiler Jean Michault -Jeffrey Morlan +Jeffrey Morlan Jerome Gardou Jim Noeth Joachim Henze -Johannes Anderwald +Johannes Anderwald Jonathan Wilson Jurgen van Gael Katayama Hirofumi MZ @@ -93,6 +93,6 @@ Vizzini Graphic Design from -Mindflyer +Mindflyer Tango Desktop Project Everaldo diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 997812d640e..33b1710b5cf 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -88,8 +88,8 @@ contents. Then burn the CD image, boot from it, and follow instructions. ------- 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 JIRA and general chat takes place in the forums, +visit the address below. Mailing lists are available for a variety of topics, +bugs should be submitted to JIRA and general chat takes place in the forums, or #reactos on freenode. https://reactos.org/ diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 5185d1fe77c..f093644398f 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ You can always download fresh binary builds of bootable images from the ["Daily ## Installing -By default, ReactOS currently can only be installed on a machine that has a FAT16 or FAT32 partition as the active (bootable) partition. +By default, ReactOS currently 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. @@ -102,10 +102,10 @@ You can also support ReactOS by [donating](https://reactos.org/donate/)! We rely ## More information -ReactOS is a Free and Open Source operating system based on the Windows architecture, +ReactOS is a Free and Open Source operating system based on the Windows architecture, providing support for existing applications and drivers, and an alternative to the current dominant consumer operating system. -It is not another wrapper built on Linux, like WINE. It does not attempt or plan to compete with WINE; in fact, the user-mode part of ReactOS is almost entirely WINE-based and our two teams have cooperated closely in the past. +It is not another wrapper built on Linux, like WINE. It does not attempt or plan to compete with WINE; in fact, the user-mode part of ReactOS is almost entirely WINE-based and our two teams have cooperated closely in the past. ReactOS is also not "yet another OS". It does not attempt to be a third player like any other alternative OS out there. People are not meant to uninstall Linux and use ReactOS instead; ReactOS is a replacement for Windows users who want a Windows replacement that behaves just like Windows.