Download Reactos 0.3.6

Version 0.3.6 of Reactos was released on Wednesday. The React Operating System project is an open source operating system that aims to be compatible with Windows NT, 2000, and XP to run Windows applications and drivers. Although a lot of software already runs smoothly on it, including Openoffice.org, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird and several games, according to the developers, the entire project is in alpha and not suitable for everyday use. on this page some screenshots of Reactos can be admired. The complete changelog for this release is here here are the highlights from this release:

Summing up the most important changes:

• More architectures support: ARM version improvements, beginnings of x64 architecture support
• FreeLdr’s memory requirements for ReactOS bootup were reduced
• Driver unloading now possible
• Numerous kernel fixes and improvements (APC delivery issues, timer issues, lots of work on architecture-independent parts of the memory manager)
• More Win32 applications are supported now thanks to the fix in the RTL heap implementation (eg InnoSetup-based installers, Delphi applications, etc)
• Network stack bug fixes and memory leaks elimination
• Win32 subsystem improvements, most of usermode DLLs synced with Wine

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