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ReactOS™ Version 0.4.x
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Updated July 19, 2021
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1. What is ReactOS?
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ReactOS™ is an Open Source effort to develop a quality operating system that is
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compatible with applications and drivers written for the Microsoft® Windows™ NT
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family of operating systems (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, Seven).
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More information is available at: https://reactos.org
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2. Relationship with the WINE project
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ReactOS has always intended to work with the WINE project to share as much
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programming effort as possible. This mainly concerns User Mode DLLs and
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still happens to a degree today. Other areas of cooperation lie in
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applications and testing suites.
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3. Future compatibility
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The ReactOS project, although currently focused on Windows Server 2003
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compatibility, is always keeping an eye toward compatibility with
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Windows Vista and future Windows NT releases.
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4. Supporting other System Applications
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The Windows NT architecture allows for subsystems, as does the ReactOS
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architecture. A subsystem is an implementation of the APIs of another
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operating system, allowing ReactOS to run applications from other systems.
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We are already looking at subsystems for: Java, OS/2, and DOS and possibly
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others in the future.
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5. Is ReactOS legal?
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Yes we are.
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All the code of ReactOS has been written from scratch by our developers.
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We go to great lengths to ensure that the code our developers create is clean,
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same applies to the variety of methods we use to understand Windows internals,
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including clean room reverse engineering, using existing documentation freely
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available both in books and on the web, using extensive tests (tens of millions)
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which apply black box engineering methods against both public and private APIs
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exposed by the operating system.
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6. Tutorials
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Developer and User Tutorials: https://reactos.org/wiki
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The tutorials contain more information on the project, compiling and testing
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ReactOS - amongst other topics. Contributors to the project are always welcome.
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7. Frequently Asked Questions
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Some of your questions may be answered in: https://reactos.org/faq
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In addition, the ReactOS forum: https://reactos.org/forum
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may contain complementary, yet non-official, information.
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8. Authors
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This document was originally written by Jason Filby (jasonfilby@yahoo.com)
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and is now occasionally updated by various contributors.
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