ReactOS 0.4.9 Is Entirely Self-Hosting, Fixes FastFAT Crashes (appuals.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Appuals: ReactOS, the "free Windows clone" operating system, has pushed out ReactOS 0.4.9 just recently, which brings a whole slew of improvements. With this latest 0.4.9 version, ReactOS has become entirely self-hosting without any issues, which means ReactOS can fully build itself from within itself, it does not require any third-party operating system to compile ReactOS. Self-hosting was built into older ReactOS versions, but it came with a myriad of issues -- the system would become too stressed under memory usage and storage I/O loads. This was due to a flawed NT-compliant kernel.

Additional improvements in ReactOS 0.4.9 include overall stability and performance enhancements. The hardware abstraction layer and the FastFAT drivers received significant attention, and FastFAT should no longer eat through the cache so fast it causes system crashes due to resource leakage. FastFAT has also been rewritten to trigger a "chkdsk" repair on dirty / corrupt volumes during boot detections. Some other quality improvements are the addition of a built-in zipfldr extension -- ReactOS can now natively unpackage zipped archives, without the need of a third-party tool like WinZip. The changelog can be viewed here.

Comments

It's time for the merge!

[Bruce Perens]

Microsoft could solve the problem of "Legacy Windows" in one fell swoop by labeling this "Windows 11" and going on with IoT or whatever they're after today. Unfortunately, Elon Musk doesn't run Microsoft, and there isn't another manager that daring in the corporate universe.

Re:Why?

[LordWabbit2]

I just don't see the point, I was hoping someone would explain why all the time and effort has been spent to build something that is not wanted, and not needed. Clearly you are not capable of doing so.

No one cares about "servers where you work"

Yeah, but chances are the place where I work is hosting your servers, but since you don't care I will switch them off for you :-)
Jokes aside, what I was trying to ask (and clearly not achieving) is that is there ANY production environment which would allow this operating system to run inside it? I don't know of a single one. I would also like to point out I write code, I don't click next, I know exactly how much time and effort is being spent on this project. Also our systems do NOT depend on open source software AT ALL. We require SLA's etc. and most of all stable software, open source is considered too volatile unless it's backed by big business (and even then the paperwork to justify it is a major pain). But then I work for really real companies, writing software that actually changes the world, not some shit hole company in the ass end of nowhere that has to rely on open source software because you can't afford the license fees. Sometimes, you get what you pay for.