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Distributions and Operating Systems: ReactOS, EasyOS, and HaikuOS
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Tom's Hardware ☛ As Windows 10 signs off, ReactOS devs are exploring a long-awaited feature in WDDM support — investigation could pave the way for newer GPU hardware compatibility
Support for Windows 10 officially ends today (here's what to do next). In a bit of irony, the developers behind Windows-alternative ReactOS are finally working on introducing the Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) to the Windows OS alternative as Windows 10 reaches end-of-life. ReactOS dev The_DarkFire_ posted a lengthy blog post, discussing the complications of starting the development of implementing WDDM into ReactOS.
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Barry Kauler ☛ woofQ2 readme file improved
Alfons downloaded woofQ2 and tested it. He reported success, it built a drive-image file, that he wrote to a USB Flash drive, booted and it worked. However, he reported that the online readme.txt file has some omissions. I have updated it: [...]
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HaikuOS ☛ Haiku Activity & Contract Report, September 2025
This report covers hrev59022 through hrev59049.
I was quite busy with other things besides Haiku in September, so this was a somewhat shorter month than usual.