Even though I am almost exclusively a Unix/Linux user and developer and that will probably never change I am nonetheless very much interested in ReactOS as a free replacement for Windows. Having tried many WINE releases I have seen it improve tremendously over the years but it will still require a lot of development to enable the majority of Windows applications to run.
Therefore I am confident that ReactOS catches up faster than WINE ever will be able to. It would be very nice if ReactOS could run with 3D acceleration enabled in a virtual machine for applications and games. But since it is developed from the ground up I think its developers shouldn't settle for good enough but rather try to create something better than any version of Windows in terms of stability, reliability and security.
That's why I would like to ask if there is any security built into the operating system or if it suffers from the very same security problems as Windows itself. Something like a noexec flag on file systems, files and folders and a strict separation between superusers and limited users would be very nice.
In this sense I would prefer to see the security features of OpenVMS and Unix and the usability of Windows without ever having to need any anti-software as Windows users are nowadays used to. This is not a critique on the project per se but I wouldn't like this project to repeat the same mistakes Microsoft made when they cut corners creating NT and the Win32 API.
Good luck developing ReactOS
