# ReactOS Newsletter 75: Bitmap Drawing and LiveCD Networking Updates

DevFeed: [ReactOS Newsletter 75: Bitmap Drawing and LiveCD Networking Updates](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/newsletter-75-32941.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://reactos.org/blogs/newsletter-75/>)

Published: 2010-08-07T00:00:00Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [Front Page on ReactOS Website](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/front-page-on-reactos-website.md>)

Topics: [ReactOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reactos.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networking.md>), [GUI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gui.md>), [TCP/IP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tcp-ip.md>), [DHCP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dhcp.md>), [win32](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/win32.md>)

Tags: [compression](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compression.md>), [data-structures](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-structures.md>), [dhcp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dhcp.md>), [free](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/free.md>), [graphics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/graphics.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/networking.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [os](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/os.md>), [react](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react.md>), [reactos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reactos.md>), [tcp-ip](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tcp-ip.md>), [win32](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/win32.md>), [winapi](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/winapi.md>)

## AI overview

ReactOS Newsletter 75 reports development progress on bitmap drawing and LiveCD networking. It describes work to improve device-independent and device-dependent bitmap conversion, address legacy data-structure support, and fix bugs affecting TCP/IP, NDIS, and DHCP device detection so the LiveCD can get online.

## Source excerpt

Starcraft 2 came out. Enough said. Bitmap Drawing Bitmaps are more or less the primary medium through which the Win32 subsystem draws things. However, the term refers to more than just the widely used format for images and the like. That format is generally considered a device independent bitmap (DIB). With a device independent version there of course exists a device dependent one, which is the format that a particular graphics device supports for drawing.