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The term ROS/2 means the OS/2 subsystem for ReactOS

It is also discussed in the osFree project malinglist core@osfree.org

Contents 1 Design decisions 2 Getting started 3 Status 4 See Also

Design decisions

Divide development in two phases:

• ROS/2 can load and run only PE images marked OS/2
• the system loader is extended to load native OS/2 images.

Getting started

First of all getting in touch with osFree team.

It's said that one can find information by looking up ROS/2 with a searchbot

An OS/2 API for NT exists. It can be used as base for porting to native API. [1]. License is BSD-like.

Status

ReactOS has an OS/2 subsystem ChangeLog-0.0.20#SUBSYSTEMS

See Also

OSFree - an open source OS/2 (think ReactOS for OS/2)