Download Reactos 0.3.7

Tuesday version 0.3.7 of Reactos was released. 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, the developers say the entire project is in alpha stage and not suitable for everyday use. on this page some screenshots from Reactos can be admired. The complete changelog of this release is here to find back. Here are the highlights from this release:

Summing up the most important changes:

• Improved x64 architecture support
• The start of a real MSVC compiler support project
• Kernel improvements and bugfixes in quite a few parts: Configuration Manager, IO Manager, KE, Memory Manager, Object Manager, Process Manager
• Network stack improvements: leakage fixes, increased functionality
• Filesystem driver fixes, making them more compatible with the Microsoft NT cache manager
• Win32 subsystem improvements and synching of most of the Wine usermode DLLs

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