ReactOS Public Site

ReactOS is an open source effort to develop a quality operating system that is compatible with Windows NT applications and drivers.

If this is your first visit it is highly recommended that you click on Introduction under the General Information heading. For information about the license of this project (GNU General Public License) click on License under the same heading.

Under the News heading you can either view the latest news, or for a broader view of what's been happening over the last few months, click on News Archive.

If you decide to join the project, click on the New Member Form. This will present you with a basic form that will ask you a few questions so that we can best determine where you could help out. After you've submitted the form, click on Getting Started link under the Development Site to bring you up to speed with the rest of the project members.

To download the current version, click on Downloads where you can download either source or binaries of the kernel and applications as they become available.

It's highly recommended that you read the current version's FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) to understand what's happening with the latest kernel release, the known bugs and possible solutions to problems.

Click on Contact Information to view a list of the project coordinators and how you can contact them. The Mailing Lists also under the Development Site is the place where most of the communication takes place and if you're interested in ReactOS, subscribing to the one's you're most interested in is crucial. The Message Board allows visitors to give comments to the developers about anything related to ReactOS without having to subscribe to a mailing list.

Under the Development Site, the development help sub menu section, you can view the Organizational structure of ReactOS -- it isn't complicated. Click on CVS for information on how to request a CVS account -- note that this is only for serious developers that have already shown that they are committed to writing code.

Upload to FTP is for developers under the Development Site, that want to upload kernel releases and applications.

The Tasks lists which tasks are available or have been recently accepted, are in progress or have just been closed off. Development help is for developers and provides links to helpful resources available on the web.

Under Other, you can click on Links to view a list of related projects. The sites section of the menu on the left represents the three homepage versions available. The Public Site, the Development Site and the International Site. Respectively the Public Site containing general information about the project, the Development Site containing more detailed information about the project as well as several project related links and the International Site containing various languages for the a broadened look on the project across the globe.