Pi_User5 wrote:

I'll be starting a new shell-experiments build when I get home tonight.

Where would I get this build at? Do I have to compile it or is it an ISO?

Yeah, I'm also interested too. It sounds like an extreme break through in Reactos.
Can't wait.

Wikipedia offers a very shallow description of most technical topics. It says little about the complications, challenges, and more importantly, background and infrastructure of the technologies. You're also jumping almost randomly from technology to technology with little coherence. An Excerpt from...

ReactOS uses UniATA http://alter.org.ua/soft/win/uni_ata/ I know that, but have you read about NVMe at wikipedia? NVMe is more than 10x faster than ACHI+SATA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVM_Express#Comparison_with_AHCI . NVMe is supported by QEMU since version 1.6 released on August 15, 2013. And...

One of the things ReactOS does not have proper support for right now is installing on SSDs. Yes, ReactOS can be installed on one, but the inefficient nature of the current partitioning scheme does not do a SSD's lifetime any good. Right now partition alignment is based on cylinder boundaries with 6...

I have found EFI stuff Called Clover EFI that allows to boot from bios to efi.
CloverEFIhttp://sourceforge.net/projects/cloverefiboot/

I also found something on UEFI called tianocore.

Tianocorehttp://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/t ... le=Welcome

Many thanks Z98(!) for the update and great to hear about these ongoing ROS developments. I love these blogs! And things like SSD support, better partitioning options, UEFI support, the new explorer.. It sounds awesome and seems to be moving pretty fast! And with the Community Edition's funding com...

Why don't you keep the 2 installer versions? the Rosdevs should combine both the bootcd and livecd, making the bootable cd installer a hybrid of ubuntu and windows installer. all the services and options of ubuntu(LInux), and the simplicity and structure of windows. Keeping the bootcd-installer vers...