ReactOS, a 17-year quest for an open-source Windows, has a new release candidate
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Re: ReactOS, a 17-year quest for an open-source Windows, has a new release candidate
#2This is one OS I've kept my eye on forever, though it feels as though Microsoft will go open source before ReactOS can catch up if anything. I wouldn't mind if certain parts of Windows were open sourced, or replaced by open sourced alternatives at least, not all of Windows. We saw this happen to the Open Live Writer.
Re: ReactOS, a 17-year quest for an open-source Windows, has a new release candidate
#3ReactOS may be impressive from a technical standpoint, but judging from the release candidate its still got a long way to go in terms of stability. While I was able to install it after puzzling over the correct hardware options, it still hanged during installing drivers at boot.
Re: ReactOS, a 17-year quest for an open-source Windows, has a new release candidate
#4At this point, I wonder whether it wouldn't be easier to bundle linux and wine together.
Re: ReactOS, a 17-year quest for an open-source Windows, has a new release candidate
#5This is one OS I've kept my eye on forever, though it feels as though Microsoft will go open source before ReactOS can catch up if anything. I wouldn't mind if certain parts of Windows were open sourced, or replaced by open sourced alternatives at least, not all of Windows. We saw this happen to the Open Live Writer.
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Re: ReactOS, a 17-year quest for an open-source Windows, has a new release candidate
#6This is one OS I've kept my eye on forever, though it feels as though Microsoft will go open source before ReactOS can catch up if anything. I wouldn't mind if certain parts of Windows were open sourced, or replaced by open sourced alternatives at least, not all of Windows. We saw this happen to the Open Live Writer.
It seems to me like Microsoft is trying to position themselves more as a Google-type entity. In the past, they were a massive proprietary corporation focused on Windows.
Nobody cares about computers anymore (thanks smartphones, tablets!), and so Windows will go down the drain eventually. Not to mention Linux and OSX market share increasing. Not today, not tomorrow, but the writing's on the wall.
Open source to get devs on board again, switch to subscription-based models, record more user data, and create more products.
Re: ReactOS, a 17-year quest for an open-source Windows, has a new release candidate
#7At this point, I wonder whether it wouldn't be easier to bundle linux and wine together.
What if you want to run vendor provided Windows-only binary drives for some weird hardware?
Re: ReactOS, a 17-year quest for an open-source Windows, has a new release candidate
#8At this point, I wonder whether it wouldn't be easier to bundle linux and wine together.
I've thought this as well. I agree there's value in aiming too-high, but the amount of effort which has gone into ReactOS would have served Wine really well.
Re: ReactOS, a 17-year quest for an open-source Windows, has a new release candidate
#9Re: ReactOS, a 17-year quest for an open-source Windows, has a new release candidate
#10At this point, I wonder whether it wouldn't be easier to bundle linux and wine together.
I've thought this as well. I agree there's value in aiming too-high, but the amount of effort which has gone into ReactOS would have served Wine really well.
There's a ton of shared code between Wine and ReactOS. They are rather complementary.