reactos/boot/bootdata
Carl J. Bialorucki 190b3da95d
[CMD][BOOTDATA] Minor improvements (#5745)
* Remove a hardcoded copyright string and move into localizable resources.
* Remove the PROMPT environment variable from clean installs of ReactOS. By default, the command prompt uses $P$G (path + '>') as its prompt settings and does not require this environment variable. Clean installs of Windows Server 2003 do not include this environment variable either. I documented this environment variable in our wiki if anyone would like to set it on their own ReactOS installs.
* Remove the new line above the copyright notice when the information line is turned off.

CORE-16193, CORE-17031
2024-05-09 10:03:43 -06:00
..
bootcd [SYSSETUP] Add new Env section to unattend.inf 2022-04-09 01:25:06 +02:00
bootcdregtest [FORMATTING] Remove trailing whitespace. Addendum to 34593d93. 2021-09-13 03:52:22 +02:00
livecd [USERINIT] Add unattend.inf functionality to livecd 2020-05-05 20:54:30 +02:00
livecdregtest Add .keep guard files in order to restore lost but empty directories we had with SVN. 2017-10-04 10:28:36 +02:00
packages Rework apisets to use a table 2024-04-27 22:51:34 +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 [BOOTDATA][SETUPLIB] Don't hardcode FreeLdr's UI defaults in the freeldr.ini files. 2022-02-21 02:54:04 +01:00
caroots.inf [BOOTDATA] Update caroots.inf 2021-09-05 16:40:53 +02:00
CMakeLists.txt [CMAKE][BOOTDATA] Fix LiveCD does not import caroots.inf into registry CORE-17739 CORE-17735 (#3930) 2021-08-30 13:07:12 +02:00
floppy_pc98.ini [BOOTDATA][SETUPLIB] Don't hardcode FreeLdr's UI defaults in the freeldr.ini files. 2022-02-21 02:54:04 +01:00
hivebcd.inf [BOOTDATA][SETUPLIB][REACTOS] INF support fixes. 2018-11-06 00:04:19 +01:00
hivecls.inf [BOOTDATA] Add Portuguese (pt-PT) translation to hivecls.inf (#6218) 2024-01-11 11:59:11 +01:00
hivedef.inf [INF] Update Romanian (ro-RO) translation (#6359) 2024-01-21 22:25:00 +01:00
hiveinst.inf [VGAMP] Rename to vga.sys 2022-01-06 20:16:12 +01:00
hiveinst_pc98.inf [PC98VID] Add framebuffer video miniport driver for NEC PC-98 series (#3040) 2020-08-19 00:50:08 +03:00
hiveinst_xbox.inf [CMAKE][BOOTDATA] Properly load Xbox video miniport driver in LiveCD (#2325) 2020-02-10 23:20:12 +01:00
hivesft.inf [BOOTDATA][NTUSER] Prepare for CTF IME Part 1 (#6524) 2024-02-24 01:53:16 +09:00
hivesys.inf [CMD][BOOTDATA] Minor improvements (#5745) 2024-05-09 10:03:43 -06:00
hybridcd.ini [BOOTDATA][SETUPLIB] Don't hardcode FreeLdr's UI defaults in the freeldr.ini files. 2022-02-21 02:54:04 +01:00
icon.ico
livecd.inf [SETUP][BOOTDATA][INF] Add font substitute ('Segoe UI Symbol' to 'Arial') (#6155) 2023-12-11 20:51:04 +09:00
livecd.ini [FREELDR] Implement NOSERIALMICE and FASTDETECT options (#5886) 2023-11-13 19:49:41 +01:00
livecd_start.cmd
readme.txt [BOOTDATA] readme.txt: Trivial correction (#4014) 2021-10-09 15:44:09 +03:00
setupreg.inf [BOOTDATA] Don't remove critical device DB for the setup 2021-01-27 05:15:14 +03:00
txtsetup.sif [FREELDR] Implement NOSERIALMICE and FASTDETECT options (#5886) 2023-11-13 19:49:41 +01:00
txtsetup_sourcedisksfiles.ods [BOOTDATA] Use a Win2k3-compatible TXTSETUP.SIF layout for the specification of the files list. 2018-11-05 23:35:12 +01:00

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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.