Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 8th May 2008 21:32 UTC
There are quite a few operating systems which have moved beyond the simple hobby operating system stage, onto a more lasting plane of existence. AROS, ReactOS, SkyOS, Syllable, Haiku; they're no longer basement products, coded by a single programer - they are now projects in which a lot of people have invested time, and possibly money too. They won't go away any time soon. The last few days have seen news on three of these systems: ReactOS, SkyOS, and Syllable.
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2008-02-26
You can compile wine in a x64 OS, so what. You are using 32bit emulation. Wine project has stated that preliminary work in Win64 won't start until 1.0 and Reactos that they won't be considering it until Wine has something.
Wine and Reactos code is, in their own words, full of assumptions about x86. So don't expect to have anything working as soon as they bother to work on it. The original NT kernel has always been portable.
If Windows keeps the Win64API, you will have in a few years another whole lot of "legacy" apps Wine won't have any support for. And Reactos will have a harder time reimplementing yet again the GUI and the driver model.