ReactOS Gets Working Floppy Disk Support, VMware 3D Acceleration & SMP Progress

ReactOS as the open-source operating system project working on Microsoft Windows driver and application compatibility had a pretty successful 2026. Following two hackfests, a lot of new features have landed recently for ReactOS and some others are nearing the finish line. Some of the recent work to ReactOS that already was covered on Phoronix included initial USB 3.0 driver support, ReactOS can now be installed with its NTFS driver, updates to the DirectX stack, and ARM progress. Thanks to this year's hackfests there have also been more Windows NT6+ system calls implemented, a new kernel shim engine, reading/writing/formatting floppy disks, and updates for its used Wine code. There is also work nearing on NVMe storage support. With the latest fixes, ReactOS now also has working 3D acceleration in VMware virtualized environments with the VMware SVGA driver. ReactOS has also been progressing with its 64-bit builds and also their SMP kernel support. They are hoping to enable their symmetric multi-processing (SMP) kernel support in nightly builds in the coming months. More details on these 2026 achievements for the ReactOS project via ReactOS.org.