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Release of ReactOS 0.4 Brings Open Source Windows Closer to Reality

posted by martyb on Wednesday February 17 2016, @07:09PM   Printer-friendly
from the making-progress dept.
ReactOS is a free and open source implementation of the Windows NT architecture, which intends to provide support for existing applications and drivers, outside of the control of Microsoft. The release of ReactOS 0.4 brings improved file system support, including native, out-of-the-box support for ext2, ext3, and ext4, as well as read-only support for NTFS. Additionally, the bundled version of UniATA was updated to add better support for SATA and PATA devices. Support was generally improved for third-party device drivers, making it substantially easier to install and use real hardware, as opposed to just virtual machines like VirtualBox.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 17 2016, @08:51PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 17 2016, @08:51PM (#305940)

    And full read-write support for ext* filesystems. You only care about NTFS if you've already got a windows partition on the system.

  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday February 17 2016, @09:30PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Wednesday February 17 2016, @09:30PM (#305959) Journal

    You only care about NTFS if you've already got a windows partition on the system.

    Or if you want to access an NTFS-formatted external disk.

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    • (Score: 3, Touché) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Wednesday February 17 2016, @10:17PM

      by fido_dogstoyevsky (131) <axehandleNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Wednesday February 17 2016, @10:17PM (#305980)

      You only care about NTFS if you've already got a windows partition on the system.

      Or if you want to access an NTFS-formatted external disk

      ...that you haven't yet gotten around to reformatting as ext4 :)

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2016, @04:05AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2016, @04:05AM (#306135)

        Yeah most of us want the filesystem not to corrupt itself.

      • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday February 18 2016, @05:08AM

        by maxwell demon (1608) on Thursday February 18 2016, @05:08AM (#306160) Journal

        Some people could get angry if you reformatted their external disk to a file system their operating system cannot read. ;-)

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        The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.

        • (Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Thursday February 18 2016, @06:59AM

          by fido_dogstoyevsky (131) <axehandleNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Thursday February 18 2016, @06:59AM (#306196)

          Some people could get angry if you reformatted their external disk to a file system their operating system cannot read. ;-)

          But... but... the instructions said windows 7 or better, so surely changing their operating system is doing them a favour?

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          It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.