ReactOS's birthday ?

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ReactOS's birthday ?

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What is the birth date of ReactOS ?

Edit:

When is the anniversary of ReactOS ?
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Re: ReactOS's birthday ?

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I'm unsure as to whether it has been born yet.
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It is ten years to go(meaning -10 years of age).
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Re: ReactOS's birthday ?

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Maybe I am talking about anniversary.
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This seems difficult to get a solid answer. Wikipedia says it started on an unspecified day of 1996. Looking at the earliest available source of ReactOS, version 0.0.7, it was pushed on July 20, 1998. This revision says "Rename krnl0007 tag to ReactOS-0.0.7." which makes it sound like the project actually didn't have a name until this date when it was decided to be called ReactOS. This version is extremely primitive, and at the stage it was at during that time, I can see the project being thought of as less serious even to the developers (in my book, a good developer doesn't see an early project as anything more than a lump of code until it actually gets off the ground, then you can start with the naming and PR, which it looks like how pre-0.0.7 ReactOS was handled).

Unless a long-time developer has more information than my speculations, I would personally deem July 20, 1998 as the formal birth date of ReactOS. It's not that different from how NT was handled, NT was started in, 1991 I think? Or maybe 1989. But wasn't released until 1993, so NT's birthday is 1993. It's pretty comparable to ReactOS.
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Konata's reply is satisfactory. But confirmation is required.
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dizt3mp3r wrote:I'm unsure as to whether it has been born yet.
Okay, then the conception date will do.

The thing is, we don't know how long the gestation period is.
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