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NTFS Now Supported in ReactOS LiveCD

posted by LaminatorX on Thursday November 06 2014, @01:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the native-support dept.

gewg_ writes:

From the WinBeta subforum of reboot.pro:

I'm Pierre Schweitzer, one of the ReactOS developers. This is a free operating system that aims to re-implement Windows, but this time with an open source license.

ReactOS now supports reading files from NTFS volume. This was a long awaited feature people were asking for. And here it is.

You can see what I'm talking about on the three pictures [included in the fine article].

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 07 2014, @06:43AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 07 2014, @06:43AM (#113753)

    couple of things: does this mean ReactOS is starting on their implementation of the HAL?
    If so, they will soon have compatibility with third party drivers... And since MSFT doesn't really provide any of the difficult ones, this could mean they go quickly from a curiosity that requires a VM, to a very usable - and unlike the original, Robust! Drop in replacement for microsoft's OS.

    Crowing about it being "a moving target" misses the point : it's been the ReactOS guy who has been giving MSFT employees training about their OS, not the other way around!
    And anyway: True Version 1.x of windows ran out of legs with the version they called "Millenium Edition", everything they've done since has truly only been "the second system design". Regardless of whatever paintjob it had had.

    Let's just cut to the chase: it is "the C++ OS" more than anything else.
    This is why linux code won't be used, it's fundamentally not compatible with the UNIX "C OS" philosophy.

    So, it's probably never going to threaten Unix for sheer robustness, but it'd be nice to have an engineered, open source OS to run games on, with good performance, and most notably with MSFT. You'd think NVIDIA would be all over this: they're the specialists at optimisation for that. Think what they could achieve without MSFT getting in the way!