"Open Source Windows" ReactOS will improve GUI installation mode and lower user threshold
CTOnews.com, October 2, ReactOS is an open source operating system based on Windows NT architecture design principles. The main goal is to provide an operating system that is binary compatible with the Windows environment and allows Windows applications and drivers to run as if they were on Windows. However, ReactOS is still in the alpha version, and many features are not yet perfect.
Recently, ReactOS Deutschland E. V. It is announced that it has hired a long-term contributor to the project to work on the ReactOS GUI installation mode over the next five months, which will replace the previous text-based installation solution, thereby lowering the user threshold.
According to the latest news from its official blog, ReactOS is paying Herm è s B é lusca-Ma ï to to study the ReactOS GUI installation mode within the next five months to complete the first phase of GUI installation development.
Currently, the installation of ReactOS goes through three phases. The first two phases need to deal with the installation of the system, while the third phase is the user's first available boot interface.
The first phase-text mode installation, launched from ReactOS CD-ROM.
Phase 2-Boot to the GUI installer. Input of user information and registration of files.
Phase III-Boot to the desktop, user configuration.
Currently, the only option for the first step of installing ReactOS is to install it in text mode, and the rest of the installation will be processed after the second phase of installation. Since the launch of the project, this has been the standard way to install ReactOS on virtual machines or bare metal, so it requires some thresholds and scares off many users.
The GUI installation roadmap for ReactOS with CTOnews.com is as follows:
Complete the partial Winesync of the setupapi.dll extracted from the CAB file
Move the FreeLdr boot loader installation selection step to the ROS disk / partition selection step and put it before the actual installation
Integrated registry settings callback (currently not present in GUI installation)
Add GPT support for GUI installation
Miscellaneous (further cleanup, some refactoring, etc.).
