Welcome to the second part of my blog series on the Windows driver load order. Good to see that you made it up to here. After the preparations in my last post, we are now finally equipped with all necessary tools to analyze the load order and develop a compatible sorting algorithm …
There are close to zero reasons to reverse-engineer the Windows driver load order. Which is exactly why I’m doing it. And if you are as crazy as me and want to write a Windows bootloader in Rust, you inevitably need to deal with this topic. Likewise, if you want to know what happens under the hood when booting …
The ReactOS Build Environment (RosBE), our curated set of compilers and build tools, has just received a major upgrade.
After more than 7 years of using the same and now ancient GCC 4.7.2, ReactOS is finally going to be built with the help of a modern compiler (GCC 8.4.0). Among other things, the new version better …
The ReactOS Hackfest 2017 is still ongoing and I held my second presentation today, digging into the delicate topic of Licensing.
ReactOS has grown to an enormously complex project over the years, making use of numerous other open-source projects to reach its goals. Each of them comes with a license, which usually …
The ReactOS Hackfest 2017 started yesterday and I held a presentation today about a project I have been working on for the past few weeks.
An oft-repeated criticism is ReactOS' inability to run on anything else than a virtual machine. While our real hardware support has become better and better over the recent years, …
Hi all! This is my first blog post designed to shed some light on the foundation behind ReactOS.
Just like many other big Open-Source projects, ReactOS is backed by a foundation supporting the project financially and organizationally. I have been the treasurer of ReactOS Deutschland e.V. since its establishment in 2009 …
As some of you may already know, my university gave me the unique opportunity to choose a ReactOS topic for my bachelor thesis. Three months ago, my decision fell on the Printing Stack, which was totally non-existing in ReactOS at that time. Since then, you can watch my daily progress in the colins-printing-for-freedom …
It took almost a year, but as of today ReactOS Deutschland can finally call itself an e.V.! (eingetragener Verein = registered association) Now what is ReactOS Deutschland and why should I care?