Software Update: ReactOS 0.3.11

Wednesday version 0.3.11 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 so that Windows applications and drivers can be run on it. While many software already runs smoothly on it, including OpenOffice.org, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, and various games, the developers say the entire project is still in its 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:

Release highlights:

• A rewrite of the kdcom kernelmode library which is now much more compatible with the Microsoft version. This allows for improved built-in support for WinDbg
• Support for delay loaded dlls has been added in our build tools, providing delay loading functionality for our shipped libraries
• Support for Chinese and Korean fonts has now been added
• A new handler has been written for setting and getting system wide parameters (see SystemParametersInfo API), now making it much more complete and compatible with the Windows implementation
• A selection of application compatibility improvements can now been seen, including Opera, Open Office, Firefox 3.5, VLC1.1 and skype
• For fun, a new Spider Solitaire application has been added
• Synchronization of most of the Wine usermode DLLs and some Win32 subsystem code shared with Wine