reactos/boot/bootdata
Pierre Schweitzer 2ab289a34a
[DCOMLAUNCH] Add a DcomLaunch service stub
This stub is responsible for providing the UUID seed to the kernel.
For now, it generates a purely random seed - MAC address support
is to be added.
Because it's purely random seed and local the machine (not tied
to the MAC address) it's made so that ExUuidCreate keeps returning
RPC_NT_UUID_LOCAL_ONLY. It won't fix failing test for now.

Nota: this service shouldn't exist as it. It should be implemented
though rpcss DLL for both rpcss service (network service) and
dcomlaunch service (local system service).
Because rpcss is EXE based and wine-synced for now, I prefered
stubbing a new service. This will have to be changed at some point.
2019-03-03 14:25:19 +01:00
..
bootcd
bootcdregtest [SETUP] Add support for selecting FS type in unattended setups 2018-12-28 20:36:47 +01:00
livecd Add .keep guard files in order to restore lost but empty directories we had with SVN. 2017-10-04 10:28:36 +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 [MODULES] Add a convenient option to transfer files into a new installation (#877) 2018-11-16 23:26:58 +01:00
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 [BOOTDATA][SETUPLIB][REACTOS] INF support fixes. 2018-11-06 00:04:19 +01:00
CMakeLists.txt [BOOTDATA] Do not include caroots.inf in registry.inf. CORE-12020 2018-02-25 10:07:28 +01:00
hivebcd.inf [BOOTDATA][SETUPLIB][REACTOS] INF support fixes. 2018-11-06 00:04:19 +01:00
hivecls.inf [CRYPTEXT] Make extension localizable, and add an icon for certificate files (#1347) 2019-02-10 17:57:43 +01:00
hivedef.inf [THEMEUI][BOOTDATA] Add the Red, White, Blue Classic Color Scheme for Classic Theme, and Localization (#1059) 2018-12-21 00:38:45 +01:00
hiveinst.inf [BOOTDATA][SETUPLIB][REACTOS] INF support fixes. 2018-11-06 00:04:19 +01:00
hivesft.inf [DCOMLAUNCH] Add a DcomLaunch service stub 2019-03-03 14:25:19 +01:00
hivesys.inf [DCOMLAUNCH] Add a DcomLaunch service stub 2019-03-03 14:25:19 +01:00
hybridcd.ini
icon.ico
livecd.inf [BOOTDATA][SETUPLIB][REACTOS] INF support fixes. 2018-11-06 00:04:19 +01:00
livecd.ini [BOOT] Add VBox debug to livecd.ini 2017-12-20 06:56:09 +01:00
livecd_start.cmd
readme.txt [README] Restore the UTF-8 BOM as it otherwise does not behave well with 2018-05-01 17:44:54 +02:00
setupreg.inf [BOOTDATA][SETUPLIB][REACTOS] INF support fixes. 2018-11-06 00:04:19 +01:00
txtsetup.sif [BOOTDATA][SETUPLIB] Setup the Romanian Stdandard Keyboard layout. (#861) 2018-12-08 18:53:18 +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 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.