Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 1st Mar 2007 14:36 UTC, submitted by mmebane
The latest ReactOS Newsletter is out. "I've been assured by our release engineer that there are only 2 blocking issues left and that [0.3.1] will be released soon. That said, a kind user compiled the 0.3.1 branch and provided the isos for public trials here. I spoke with our project leader about future releases and he went on to say that future releases (0.3.x) will be made every month or 2."
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Although it's interesting to see someone follow the Windows style of design instead of just making another *nix-like, you have to call into doubt anyone who would just reverse-engineer someone else's work instead of creating something new from scratch. And reverse-engineering binaries, instead of creating anew from defined goals, by necessity creates code that is bulkier than it needs to be, imperfectly understood, and harder to modify.
And this shows in the ReactOS team's speed.
By the time the ReactOS team is done reverse-engineering Windows 95 (wait -- Windows NT! No wait -- Windows XP!), Microsoft and others will have come out with entire operating systems. Heck, Microsoft could "clean-room" (to use the ReactOS team's euphemism) any Linux distro into a closed-source Linux distro in about two months, as a lark, and still have multiple scratch-built and updated OSs done by the time ReactOS finishes.