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ReactOS 0.4.15 Released

posted by janrinok on Friday March 28 2025, @07:56AM   Printer-friendly
from the making-progress dept.

Freeman writes:

https://reactos.org/project-news/reactos-0415-released/

We are pleased to announce the release of ReactOS 0.4.15! This release offers Plug and Play fixes, audio fixes, memory management fixes, registry healing, improvements to accessories and system tools including Notepad, Paint, RAPPS, the Input Method Editor, and shell improvements.

We chose to release this version of ReactOS in honor of Eric Kohl's first commit to the ReactOS code base, which dates back to 1999.
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0.4.15 was branched 6 months ago. Since then, many new and exciting features have been worked on in the master branch. UEFI support, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), a new graphical installer, a new NTFS filesystem driver, power management, and newer application support are just a few features being worked on. We are excited to share this journey with you as ReactOS improves and matures.

Previously on SoylentNews:
Watch: Mac OS X 10.4 Running in Windows Alternative ReactOS via PearPC Emulator - 20180510
Alternatives to Win32...Win32 of course! ReactOS still making progress.... - 20160828
Release of ReactOS 0.4 Brings Open Source Windows Closer to Reality - 20160217
Ask Soylent: Can We Turn ReactOS into a Viable Alternative to Windows 10? - 20151021
NTFS Now Supported in ReactOS LiveCD - 20141106

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  • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Wednesday April 02 2025, @10:50PM (1 child)

    by Reziac (2489) on Wednesday April 02 2025, @10:50PM (#1398945) Homepage

    When I last spent some time with it, the main issue was that memory management was the suck, and rapidly clogged itself up (tho it only used 85mb at boot). But the other necessities of life did well enough (USB wasn't supposed to work, but it did anyway). I'm happy to see it progressing -- that's been accelerating.

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  • (Score: 2) by Rich on Thursday April 03 2025, @10:37AM

    by Rich (945) on Thursday April 03 2025, @10:37AM (#1398983) Journal

    Assume Widgetizing Industries Corp have an installed base of 5000 Widgetizers (from 1990 to 2020 models) worldwide. These boot into a kiosk mode, and they care a rats ass about what is below as long as it is cheap and doesn't annoy. The only thing that keeps them from shipping ReactOS after testing is that it leaks memory like macOS Monterey. I'm sure they can wave a few grand at the ReactOS people and make that leaking go away for good and be set for a glorious future of widgetizing without Windows.