Windows Replacement? ReactOS 0.3.16 Gets Themes, CSRSS Rewrite, and More

The ReactOS Project is pleased to announce the release of version 0.3.16. A little under a year has passed since the previous release and a significant amount of progress has been made. More than 400 bugs were eliminated. Some of the most significant include completion of the CSRSS rewrite and the first stages of a shell32 rewrite. 0.3.16 is in many ways a prelude to several new features that will provide a noticeable enhancement to user visible functionality. A preview can be seen in the form of theme support, which while disabled by default can be turned on to demonstrate the Lautus theme developed by community member Maciej Janiszewki. Another user visible change is a new network card driver for the RTL8139, allowing ReactOS to support newer versions of QEMU out of the box."You can download release images here. Want to see how it handles Windows software? Here are demos of [video=youtube;Hu2Pf-RGxes]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=c-8Bj5jHLwI"]Office 2003[/URL],http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=eoJTc6G3oK0, and [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Hu2Pf-RGxes[/video].

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