# ReactOS 2008 Year in Review: Releases, Kernel Stability, and Hardware Support

DevFeed: [ReactOS 2008 Year in Review: Releases, Kernel Stability, and Hardware Support](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/year-in-review-33258.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://reactos.org/project-news/year-review/>)

Published: 2009-01-17T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

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>), [Kernel](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kernel.md>), [releases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/releases.md>), [Hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hardware.md>), [virtual machines](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/virtual-machines.md>)

Tags: [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [free](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/free.md>), [hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hardware.md>), [kernel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kernel.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>), [releases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/releases.md>), [virtual-machines](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/virtual-machines.md>), [win32](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/win32.md>), [winapi](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/winapi.md>)

## AI overview

A retrospective on ReactOS development in 2008, covering four point releases, reduced instability after a kernel rewrite, improved results on real hardware, and continued work to make the system more functional and stable.

## Source excerpt

Year in Review 2008 saw a total of four point releases by the ReactOS project, all of which were made after the kernel rewrite was completed. Thus the instabilities people saw in the 0.3.1 release were greatly reduced and there were better rates of success in running ROS on real hardware and not just virtual machines. That is not to say the system runs reliably, but we have gotten closer.