reactos/boot/bootdata
Adam Słaboń 03d41008d4
[BOOTDATA] Fix LiveCD autorun (#7282)
Use 'shellexecute' entry instead of 'open', because the latter
tries to execute a non-executable readme.txt file.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/shell/autorun-cmds

Addendum to 4cc03bbf01 (r71342).
2024-08-30 10:16:31 +03:00
..
bootcd [SETUPLIB][BOOTDATA] Rename "MBRInstallType" to "BootLoaderLocation" 2024-08-12 12:04:38 +02:00
bootcdregtest [SETUPLIB][BOOTDATA] Rename "MBRInstallType" to "BootLoaderLocation" 2024-08-12 12:04:38 +02:00
livecd
livecdregtest
packages Rework apisets to use a table 2024-04-27 22:51:34 +02:00
welcome_config
.gitattributes
autorun-bootcd.inf
autorun-hybridcd.inf
autorun-livecd.inf [BOOTDATA] Fix LiveCD autorun (#7282) 2024-08-30 10:16:31 +03:00
bootcd.ini
caroots.inf
CMakeLists.txt [CMAKE][REACTOS] Introduce a utf16le_convert() cmake helper (#6904) 2024-06-10 21:23:12 +02:00
floppy_pc98.ini
hivebcd.inf
hivecls.inf [TRANSLATION] Improve Simplified Chinese (zh-CN) translation (#6804) 2024-06-13 16:36:41 +03:00
hivedef.inf [THEMEUI][INF] Update Czech (cs-CZ) translation (#7145) 2024-07-29 14:18:10 +02:00
hiveinst.inf
hiveinst_pc98.inf
hiveinst_xbox.inf
hivesft.inf [INF][BOOTDATA][SETUPAPI] Use Inf instead of Cmd.exe to register IExplore (#7171) 2024-07-24 22:55:29 +02:00
hivesys.inf [NTGDI][FREETYPE][SETUP][INF] Support FontLink (#7009) 2024-06-30 22:15:34 +09:00
hybridcd.ini
icon.ico
livecd.inf [BOOTDATA] Fix Internet Browser icon for LiveCD (#7153) 2024-07-19 22:10:29 +09:00
livecd.ini
livecd_start.cmd
readme.txt
setupreg.inf
txtsetup.sif
txtsetup_sourcedisksfiles.ods

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ReactOS™ Version 0.4.x
Updated October 9, 2021
========================

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, 7).

More information is available at: https://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://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://reactos.org/faq
In addition, the ReactOS forum: https://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.