* Linux already has 3D accelleration and network drivers (so it can already run many Windows games better than ReactOS) I’ve -1 Trolled you because of the tone of your post and the following facts you were grossly inaccurate about: No one will free us without losing all Windows-based SW except ReactOS… if they only could find an investor so they’d accelerate their progress… oh well… I’m just waiting and waiting until they got some usable version (i.e 3D acceleration and network), so I could dump Vista and become free… Unfortunately ReactOS is the only viable option to a Windows (TM) user, since Linux is a useless crap and FreeBSD has even a worse position on the desktop. That is going to take a good deal more work on the ReactOS side before we get those benefits.” The drivers also provide 2D hardware acceleration,” they state, “The bad news is that currently there is still no 3D hardware acceleration. “The good news however is that it seems the XP drivers seem to be more reliable than the Windows 2000 drivers, meaning the current kernel side that interfaces with the drivers behaves more like XP. There’s also been some testing in the video driver department, but it’s still mostly with old hardware such as Matrox’ G100/G400, the ATI Rage II+, and the S3 Trio 64V. “In the future, we’ll of course want to actually fix this as not having DMA imposes a performance hit,” they explain, “In the mean time, the major blockers with UniATA are now gone and it has been switched over as the default ATA driver for ReactOS.” VirtualBOX used to choke on the UniATA driver, but this bug has been temporarily fixed – a definitive fix still needs to be made, since the current one causes a performance penalty (it just disables DMA). The UniATA driver is now ready to replace the older SATA driver, enabling better support for ATA controllers. “The Foundation is considering setting up a system where projects can apply to have their code signed with the Foundation’s certificate, thus working around that particular issue,” the project states, “Of course we’d be vetting the code for any issues and any code submitted must conform to the rules they would have followed had they applied for a certificate themselves, but this will at least save them some money along the way.” There’s another major benefit to having such a certificate: as most of you will know, 64bit versions of Windows requires signed drivers, and the ReactOS project think they can help open source projects. In addition, they now have a digital codesigning certificate from VeriSign, allowing them to sign their releases and preventing fake ones. Some good news around the foundation lately: “ReactOS” is now a registered trademark, owned by the foundation, which means they now have a stronger legal position in cases where the ReactOS name is abused. The ReactOS Foundation is the organisation which owns the ReactOS trademarks and logos, and which handles the legal maters around the project. The legal position of the ReactOS Foundation has been strengthened, and now has a VeriSign certificate that might help other open source projects as well, the new ATA driver is more or less complete, and there’s some progress in the area of video drivers. NTVDM's purpose was instead to facilitate running 16-bit software originally written for the likes of Windows 3.1 and early days of Windows 9x.Īll 64-bit versions of Windows NT do not incorporate NTVDM due to hardware limitations and consequently cannot execute any 16-bit programs, including software for DOS.ReactOS, the project to create a Windows NT-compatible operating system, has published another news update with some interesting news items. However, this "compatibility" afforded by NTVDM still failed in most practical situations because most DOS programs were written with the assumption of direct hardware access being available. This was a rather sore point back in the days of Windows NT 3.1 and NT 4.0, when a lot of software was still written for DOS and simply couldn't execute on NT.Īll 32-bit versions of Windows NT up through Windows 10 have NTVDM (NT Virtual DOS Machine), which as the name suggests is a virtual machine which virtualized DOS. Windows NT has absolutely nothing to do with MS-DOS.
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