ReactOS reaches major milestone with NTFS install support
Open source Windows alternative ReactOS has reached a major milestone: The operating system can now be installed directly onto an NT Files System drive…
Ars Technica reports: Open source Windows alternative ReactOS has reached a major milestone: The operating system can now be installed directly onto an NT Files System drive partition.
As reported by Phoronix, the move to NTFS clears a long-standing hurdle for the project and brings it one step closer to finally reaching beta. Prior to this latest announcement, ReactOS required users to keep a FAT32 partition for installations.
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- Location
- United States · Americas
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- Ars Technica
- First reported
- Key names
- NTFS, Windows NT, ReactOS, NT Files System
- Section
- Technology
- Figure cited
- A proprietary Microsoft-developed filesystem, NTFS can trace its roots back through the Windows NT family lineage starting in 1993 with Windows NT 3.1. (Ars Technica)
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