ReactOS 0.3.16 released
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ReactOS 0.3.16 released
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Re: ReactOS 0.3.16 released
#2I just downloaded and installed in a virtualbox VM. It feels ridiculously snappy compared to windows. Runs Firefox with the odd crash. Impressive to see how far it has come but there is still some way to go.
Re: ReactOS 0.3.16 released
#3Office 2003 works now too: http://www.reactos.org/node/771
Some screenshots of ReactOS: http://www.reactos.org/screenshots and http://old.reactos.org/en/screenshots.html
Re: ReactOS 0.3.16 released
#4I just downloaded and installed in a virtualbox VM. It feels ridiculously snappy compared to windows. Runs Firefox with the odd crash. Impressive to see how far it has come but there is still some way to go.
Last time I tried it it ran an old version of Firefox (version 3.something) but if you downloaded Firefox stable it would not even install. I think having a working web browser should be the most important point of the project. Overall I'm a supporter of the idea.
Re: ReactOS 0.3.16 released
#5They're also doing a kickstarter for Thorium Core:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thorium/thorium-core-cl...
"Thorium Core is an attempt to build a commercial operating system and cloud services platform, based on ReactOS, which is an Open Source implementation of the NT architecture seen in modern versions of Windows."
Re: ReactOS 0.3.16 released
#6They're also doing a kickstarter for Thorium Core: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thorium/thorium-core-cl... "Thorium Core is an attempt to build a commercial operating system and cloud services platform, based on ReactOS, which is an Open Source implementation of the NT architecture seen in modern versions of Windows."
I really like the idea of ReactOS in concept, so I'd pitch in if their Kickstarter wasn't so blatantly what I didn't want. Cloud services? Come on.
Re: ReactOS 0.3.16 released
#7They're also doing a kickstarter for Thorium Core: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thorium/thorium-core-cl... "Thorium Core is an attempt to build a commercial operating system and cloud services platform, based on ReactOS, which is an Open Source implementation of the NT architecture seen in modern versions of Windows."
I really like the idea of ReactOS in concept, so I'd pitch in if their Kickstarter wasn't so blatantly what I didn't want. Cloud services? Come on.
Same here. I can't get behind that cloud services idea. If they really wanted to just improve ReactOS and do something like was done with Mesa/OpenGL ( http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-improve-opengl-suppor... ), I'd be happy to pitch in.
Re: ReactOS 0.3.16 released
#8Office 2003 works now too: http://www.reactos.org/node/771 Some screenshots of ReactOS: http://www.reactos.org/screenshots and http://old.reactos.org/en/screenshots.html
It's too bad all the screenshots are of open-source windows ports of stuff, and stuff that's otherwise going to be really well-behaved (ie, not use secret API's)
Re: ReactOS 0.3.16 released
#9Office 2003 works now too: http://www.reactos.org/node/771 Some screenshots of ReactOS: http://www.reactos.org/screenshots and http://old.reactos.org/en/screenshots.html
It's too bad all the screenshots are of open-source windows ports of stuff, and stuff that's otherwise going to be really well-behaved (ie, not use secret API's)
Notepad++ isn't a windows port, and is in fact so dependent on Windows APIs that there is no Linux version of it.
Re: ReactOS 0.3.16 released
#10I just downloaded and installed in a virtualbox VM. It feels ridiculously snappy compared to windows. Runs Firefox with the odd crash. Impressive to see how far it has come but there is still some way to go.
Last time I tried it it ran an old version of Firefox (version 3.something) but if you downloaded Firefox stable it would not even install. I think having a working web browser should be the most important point of the project. Overall I'm a supporter of the idea.
You can install Firefox 26 from the ReactOS Applications Manager. It crashed on first startup but has worked since then for me.