The ReactOS development team announced that ReactOS has correctly identified GPT partitions with Linux installed and using the ext2 file system. The team also stated that the new hard drive for ReactOS already supports GPT, and GPT support will be added to the installer later.
For ReactOS, an open source operating system designed to replace Windows, supporting GPT is not a small improvement. GPT is short for GUID Partition Table, that is, "Globally Unique Identifier Partition Table", originally to provide It was introduced for better compatibility, and later because it also supports larger memory (different from MBR partitions that support up to 2T hard disks, GPT is theoretically unlimited), the combination of the two advantages makes it widely used.
In fact, the most prominent feature of GPT is its perfect support for UEFI. After all, it is a derivative of the UEFI specification. At present, UEFI has a trend to dominate the industry. For example, Microsoft once required that computers pre-installed with Windows 8 must use UEFI boot mode. Therefore, ReactOS supports GPT and adds some competitive advantages for itself.
ReactOS is an open source operating system based on the Windows NT architecture design principles. All the code has been rewritten, ReactOS is not based on Linux, and does not contain any UNIX architecture.
The main goal of the ReactOS project is to provide an operating system that is binary compatible with the Windows environment. It allows your Windows applications and drivers to run as if they were on Windows. In addition, due to the application of the appearance characteristics of the Windows operating system, users who are already familiar with the Windows user interface will be familiar with ReactOS. The ultimate goal of ReactOS is to enable you to use ReactOS to replace Windows without feeling the end user experience changes.
