I have embraced the Rust programming language since my unikernel thesis 3 years ago, and at my daily job at ENLYZE I get to use it everyday for implementing parsers for machine protocols. What had been missing so far was a Rust project that combines my passions for Rust and ReactOS.
Aiming to fix this, I’m …
I’m proud to release the first open-source product of ENLYZE today, a driver and tool to monitor serial/parallel port traffic on modern Windows systems (Windows XP and later). You can download it and get the source code from our GitHub page.
Naturally, we would have used the popular Sysinternals Portmon tool for …
User interfaces in 2020 need to consider many more details than those of previous generations. One of the biggest changes of the last decade is certainly the introduction of HiDPI displays, displays with much higher resolutions together with software using more pixels per GUI element. Win32 with its pixel-based …
We are now going to get into the nitty-gritty details of Win32 and how modern C++ can help us here: Pointers that free themselves, Universal C++ containers, String resources without regrets, Mastering the handle mess, Gracefully failing constructors, The only 
WndProc you’ll ever need, …
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 …
I had my master thesis presentation today and it’s finally time to speak about what I’ve been doing for the past 6 months. The thesis name in all its glory is Evaluation of Rust for Operating System Development and Porting Key Components of the HermitCore Unikernel. But what actually is the HermitCore …
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 …