ReactOS Updates

Post by monocasa » Tue, Feb 09, 2021, 5:29 PM UTC

nailer wrote: post #38

Nursie wrote: post #25

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This is false. There was an issue when there was a leak of windows source code to the internet, and ReactOS effectively had to shut down development for months while all code was audited to make sure no helpful folks had used any of it to 'help' the project. That's the only MS IP controversy they've been involved in (and I've been watching the project for waaaay too many years now) (That issue answer reads like someo…

The specific issue is;: > Many internal data structures and internal functions, not exported anywhere and not part of the public symbols, have the exact same names as they appear in the Research Kernel (which, by the way, is quite obsolete). There is an almost surely zero probability that this happened, at that scale, by accident. Unfortunately I don’t think anyone who doesn’t have access to the research kernel is ca…

Post by Koshkin » Tue, Feb 09, 2021, 5:34 PM UTC

theandrewbailey wrote: post #52

ducktective wrote: post #44

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I think you might enjoy Xfce from the GNU/Linux world.

I agree 100%, but you can go further. Like, all the way: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95

Post by iknowicouldturn » Tue, Feb 09, 2021, 5:38 PM UTC

StillBored wrote: post #84

londons_explore wrote: post #69

What is ReactOS's endgame? It seems they will never have enough resources to become more popular than windows. And they will never manage to become the desktop OS of choice over Linux or Mac either. It seems to sit in an odd place with only a tiny userbase and no real goal, permanently playing catchup.

How much of the windows churn over the past decade has been widely accepted as good by the users? They only really need to get to a XP64/win7 level of win32 capability with the ability to run a recent graphics stack and they will win. They have been getting closer to the "just" works bit every year. At some point I suspect their market share will start to rise enough that application vendors start assuring their prog…

Post by easton » Tue, Feb 09, 2021, 5:47 PM UTC

Koshkin wrote: post #94

crb wrote: post #10

The way Microsoft is moving, it's feasible to think that Windows 2000/XP will be open sourced before ReactOS is finished.

Has MS-DOS been open-sourced yet?

Post by chungy » Tue, Feb 09, 2021, 6:01 PM UTC

theandrewbailey wrote: post #54

chungy wrote: post #16

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Wine tends to have far higher compatibility, and the operating system it runs on top of is mature too. ReactOS is a cool project, but it's an alpha-stage complete operating system with bugs as basic in nature as you shouldn't even expect the file system to live long without being corrupted, or the OS crashing constantly. Not to mention they primarily focus on Windows XP compatibility, Vista and newer software is gene…

From that, it sounds like ReactOS already provides the classic Windows experience!