Software Update: ReactOS 0.3.8

Wednesday version 0.3.8 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. While 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:

Changes in version 0.3.8:

• Kernel core services bug fixes and enhancements.
• A few longstanding bugs are fixed (such as multipartition HDD support by LiveCD, Task Manager CPU graph).
• CRT and RTL libraries improvements.
• A number of problems were fixed in base system drivers: NPFS, CDFS, FASTFAT, FS_REC, SCSIPORT.
• Ongoing Win32 subsystem work.
• System applications improvements (cmd, ipconfig, etc).
• Core tools and components shared with Wine are updated.
• Build tool chain fixes and improvements.

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