reactos/boot/bootdata
Hermès Bélusca-Maïto 4ec5eefa64
[BOOTDATA] Add some informative registry values (Win2k3 compat).
- In HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Windows, add "Directory"
  and "SystemDirectory" values, giving the ReactOS installation
  directories (purely informative).
- Also add the "ErrorMode" value that specifies how the hard-error
  popups are displayed. This value will be used later.
- Fix event log sources ordering.
2018-02-18 01:41:53 +01:00
..
bootcd
bootcdregtest Fix remaining text file line endings in the tree. (#18) 2017-10-06 15:00:36 +02:00
livecd
livecdregtest
packages [GDIPLUS] Add it to winsxs. 2018-01-27 02:45:50 +02:00
welcome_config
.gitattributes Add a small descriptive comment for the reason why the chosen files are specified in a .gitattributes file. 2017-10-08 15:48:07 +02:00
autorun-bootcd.inf Fix remaining text file line endings in the tree. (#18) 2017-10-06 15:00:36 +02:00
autorun-hybridcd.inf Fix remaining text file line endings in the tree. (#18) 2017-10-06 15:00:36 +02:00
autorun-livecd.inf Fix remaining text file line endings in the tree. (#18) 2017-10-06 15:00:36 +02:00
bootcd.ini Fix remaining text file line endings in the tree. (#18) 2017-10-06 15:00:36 +02:00
caroots.inf [CAROOTS] Update certificates to Mozilla Certdata 28.01.18 (#338) 2018-01-29 23:43:34 +01:00
CMakeLists.txt [BOOTDATA] Start menu, shortcuts: port r61988 to LiveCD from BootCD. CORE-13994 2017-12-14 16:49:03 +01:00
hivebcd.inf
hivecls.inf Polish translation update (#29) 2017-10-10 12:14:38 +02:00
hivedef.inf
hiveinst.inf
hivesft.inf Polish translation update (#29) 2017-10-10 12:14:38 +02:00
hivesys.inf [BOOTDATA] Add some informative registry values (Win2k3 compat). 2018-02-18 01:41:53 +01:00
hybridcd.ini
icon.ico
livecd.inf
livecd.ini [BOOT] Add VBox debug to livecd.ini 2017-12-20 06:56:09 +01:00
livecd_start.cmd
readme.txt [BOOTDATA] Change readme encoding to UTF-8 2017-10-16 19:58:01 +03:00
txtsetup.sif [FS] During 1st stage, disable any FS we don't support install to in order to let RawFS these volumes. 2017-12-18 08:46:24 +01:00

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ReactOS™ Version 0.4.x
Updated August 31, 2016
========================

1. What is ReactOS?
-------------------

ReactOS™ is an Open Source effort to develop a quality operating system that is
compatible with applications and drivers written for the Microsoft® Windows™ NT
family of operating systems (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, Seven).

More information is available at: https://www.reactos.org


2. Relationship with the WINE project
-------------------------------------

ReactOS has always intended to work with the WINE project to share as much
programming effort as possible. This mainly concerns User Mode DLLs and
still happens to a degree today. Other areas of cooperation lie in
applications and testing suites.


3. Future compatibility
-----------------------

The ReactOS project, although currently focused on Windows Server 2003
compatibility, is always keeping an eye toward compatibility with
Windows Vista and future Windows NT releases.


4. Supporting other System Applications
---------------------------------------

The Windows NT architecture allows for subsystems, as does the ReactOS
architecture. A subsystem is an implementation of the APIs of another
operating system, allowing ReactOS to run applications from other systems.
We are already looking at subsystems for: Java, OS/2, and DOS and possibly
others in the future.


5. Is ReactOS legal?
--------------------

Yes we are.
All the code of ReactOS has been written from scratch by our developers.
We go to great lengths to ensure that the code our developers create is clean,
same applies to the variety of methods we use to understand Windows internals,
including clean room reverse engineering, using existing documentation freely
available both in books and on the web, using extensive tests (tens of millions)
which apply black box engineering methods against both public and private APIs
exposed by the operating system.


6. Tutorials
------------

Developer and User Tutorials: https://www.reactos.org/wiki

The tutorials contain more information on the project, compiling and testing
ReactOS - amongst other topics. Contributors to the project are always welcome.


7. Frequently Asked Questions
-----------------------------

Some of your questions may be answered in: https://www.reactos.org/joining/faqs
In addition, the ReactOS forum: https://www.reactos.org/forum/ may contain
complementary, yet non-official, information.


8. Authors
----------

This document was originally written by Jason Filby (jasonfilby@yahoo.com)
and is now occasionally updated by various contributors.