You should do such writings more often Ged. It's a real pleasure to read. Probably because you're a native english speaker.
- Marius Przybylski (SuperDog) Ged Murphy wrote: > > The ReactOS team is proud to announce the release of ReactOS 0.3.11. > This release has been delayed by quite some time due to various > blocker bugs which manifested each time we tried to release. A lot of > time has gone into hunting down these bugs and various steps have been > taken to try to ensure we don't hit this problem again. This isn't to > say we don't have a lot of new and exciting features in this release. > Two of which stand out are the huge changes to the Memory Manager and > another leap forward for the sound stack > > It's difficult to sum up all of the changes which have taken place in > the memory manager short of saying it's been almost a total rewrite. > These changes have not only brought a much more stable and reliable > component, but also now includes support for ARM processors. ARM > memory management units (MMU’s) are handled in an entirely different > manner than that of x86 and x86-64 MMU’s, however the ARM Mm component > has been written alongside the x86 component with various areas > sharing code when possible. Further to this, these changes bring much > improved compatibility with WinDbg. WinDbg support is now at a level > where the majority of everyday features are working and tasks which > previously seemed so distant using WinDbg, such as stepping through > the kernel, listing process threads or dynamically editing memory are > now working. We're now at a level where having PDB's (Microsoft's > debugging symbols) would make debugging the reactos kernel a similar > experience to debugging the Windows kernel, with the added advantage > of source mode. > For the technically inquisitive, here > <http://www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php/ChangeLog-0.3.11#MM> are the Mm > changes in this release > > The sound stack continues to see extensive work throughout all areas. > This release brings with it support for wave recording and mixer > support such as volume level adjustment and muting. Improved core > component compatibility with WinXP means that more components now run > within Windows and goes some way to showing the level of compatibility > the sound stack is now achieving. > > Compatibility and stability changes have been continuing throughout > the entire operating system with a great deal of fixes coming from the > Wine test framework used to ensure application interface compatibility. > > As this is the 0.3.11 release, we felt a certain degree of nostalgia > towards 'Windows 3.11 for workgroups' and added a fun easter egg in > tribute. See if you can spot it, the older generation will surely have > no problems > > Along with the rest of the 0.3 series, this release is still > considered alpha quality software so it may not run all your apps or > run on your hardware. > > > Changes summary > > A detailed consolidation of all changes can be found in the changelog > <http://www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php/ChangeLog-0.3.11>. A sum up of > some of the more important changes is as follows: > > * A rewrite of the kdcom kernelmode library which is now much more > compatible with the Microsoft version. This allows for improved > built-in support for WinDbg > * Support for delay loaded dlls has been added in our build tools, > providing delay loading functionality for our shipped libraries > * Support for Chinese and Korean fonts has now been added > * A new handler has been written for setting and getting system > wide parameters (see SystemParametersInfo API), now making it > much more complete and compatible with the Windows implementation > * A selection of application compatibility improvements can now > been seen, including Opera, Open Office, Firefox 3.5, VLC1.1 and > skype > * For fun, a new Spider Solitaire application has been added > * Synchronization of most of the Wine usermode DLLs and some Win32 > subsystem code shared with Wine > > > VirtualBox install note > > A bug has surfaced meaning that installing ReactOS in VirtualBox will > result in a hang when loading the USB driver, unless the VM has 256Mb > RAM or more. To counteract this, either raise the RAM from the default > 192Mb or disable the USB device. We have created a preloaded > VirtualBox VM for download incorporating this workaround. Apologies > for any inconvenience caused. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Ros-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-general _______________________________________________ Ros-general mailing list [email protected] http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-general
