Hi, as we earlier discussed, there is an idea to make 0.3.10 a "hardware- compatibility" release.
There is a full list of 0.3.10 milestones bugs linked from our roadmap page, but here are some possible directions for work: - USB support for keyboard and mouse devices. Right now, it needs fixing the rare crash during booting (bug is bugzilled, comment explaining how to solve the problem is attached, some investigation remains), and more testing on real hardware. - Uniata support: it solves many problems at once, such as a stupid 8Gb limit which is a nonsense for a 2009-year operating system, and Serial ATA support, which greatly enhances possible ReactOS usability (along with the first item of this list). I use it in my builds everyday for more than a month, it works very good. Problems: VirtualBox CDROM support (it doesn't recognize it), on my realhardware it also experiences similar problems. Bug is also bugzilled, a lot of debug logs attached, so everyone can participate. - Common NICs support: Cameron is doing great work, testers too. There are some outstanding problems, which you can see from http:// www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php/Supported_Hardware/Network_cards - Sound support: Johannes knows best, but getting any progress with sound by 0.3.10 release date is greatly appreciated. - Videocards support: Olaf performs some tesitng and bugreporting. Third party drivers support is rather weak, http://www.reactos.org/ wiki/index.php/Supported_Hardware/Video_cards , and usually is limited by VMWare's video driver which is being one of the most supported through the ReactOS development history. Besides of that, Olaf is organizing the Golden Apps testing, so that we won't discover regressions occasionally or by the time the release is branched and everyone is awaiting, but instead that's going to happen on a periodical basis, and he's going to manage this process with help of our fellow testers. Target 0.3.10 release date is month from now on - that means, somewhere in the end of May. Certainly, if our goals aren't met, the release is going to be rescheduled and that's it, but, I'd like to ask to concentrate on the above problems first. They are hard to solve when every problem is being approached by one person, but with a common effort they aren't going to be a problem. Any new developers - welcome! There are very definite goals, enough of information, so please feel free to join and help. With the best regards, Aleksey Bragin. _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
