http://www.osnews.com/story/15673/A_Quickie_ReactOS_on_VMWare_Player Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 22 May 2013 13:09:46 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?157142 http://www.osnews.com/thread?157142 As always, it looks promising..
Although I tried to run a few Windows applications (modplug, zsnes, textpad, xmplay, opencanvas, etc) I did not have any luck.. everything either froze reactos, or did not even start. Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (reduz) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?157146 http://www.osnews.com/thread?157146 ReactOS 0.3.0 Videos & Screenshots

* graphical user interface
* command line
* samba-tng (files and printing over network)

http://www.reactos.org/?page=media Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (frik85) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?157157 http://www.osnews.com/thread?157157 Same here. ReactOS looks promising, but for me, it is essentially failed expectations up to now. Most installations did not work, let alone running the programs, save those included.
Still alpha. Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Tractor) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?157187 http://www.osnews.com/thread?157187 Yes, ReactOS is far from it's final release, as openly explained on their website "Please bear in mind that ReactOS 0.3.0 is still in alpha stage and is not recommended for everyday use.". I have personally been able to install and run a few Windows programs, but most fail to install or run poorly at this point, but at least they are going in the right direction. I've been following ReactOS for quite some time now and I'm often surprised at how much better it is becoming. They have been slowed down by a recent code audit, which is close to completion. As soon as they get that out of the way I'm sure the releases and improvements will accelerate. Feel free to donate your time and/or money to the project. Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (proftv) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?157202 http://www.osnews.com/thread?157202 Compatability and stability are improving all the time.
Current trunk has already advanced a great deal over the 0.3.0 release.

The 0.3.1 changelog will also be a biggie Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gedmurphy) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?157213 http://www.osnews.com/thread?157213 "Still alpha."

This is the claim of the software. Don't slam the devs for releasing code before final release. If you weren't interested in alpha quality code, wait until the the 1.0 release. The site says the project is still alpha. Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Adam S) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?157216 http://www.osnews.com/thread?157216 this is the best idea I've ever seen! Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SK8T) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?157229 http://www.osnews.com/thread?157229 Hi:

I do not know how the people find everything bad in everything and do a lot of critics instead of see the good side of anything!

This is a very good work; there is a lot left to do, but there are hands that are working to bring this amazing thing for the people...

Excellent work! Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ebasconp) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?157234 http://www.osnews.com/thread?157234 Anyone tried installing vmware tools? Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (John Blink) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?157255 http://www.osnews.com/thread?157255 I wasn't successful with it on the 0.3 release. Got their version of the BSOD. Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bkavanaugh) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?157261 http://www.osnews.com/thread?157261 Forget it. There are some reasons, why they will not work.

1. Without the almost ready (and tested by me) Cache Manager, Setup BSODs quite soon.

2. I'm not sure if the drivers will run yet. Driver support will increase like hell in 0.3.1 and Cache Manager will come in 0.3.1 or 0.3.2 Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (EmuandCo) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?157269 http://www.osnews.com/thread?157269 Well done to the devs. Keep up the good work! Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Bringbackanonposting) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?157388 http://www.osnews.com/thread?157388 more like KDE than Windoze,but if will eventually run Windoze software I'm all for it,my main concern it will they make it so it will run Windoze games and media&graphics apps,Open Office or even GoBe Productive are plenty good enough for most home users(Big Biz buys MS anyways so why cater to them),,the common people that would benefit from this want to edit pictures, watch and record movies,let their kids play games readily available on CD,convert MP3 and load their players,scan photos,print greeeting cards,surf the net,etc.Thats what average folks do with PC's,not a bunch of office work)Trust me,down on the street level this is what a PC has become,An entertainment center/communication/education device,and I forsee (when the price of large plasma displays come down)the PC taking the place of the television and stereo in the living rooms of America,I have already built boxes to to this effect with TV cards and output into stereo amps but the bottleneck is finding a cheap hi-rez screen large enough to make it worthwhile,but i ramble on ...LOL Thu, 31 Aug 2006 07:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Saquatch666) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?157401 http://www.osnews.com/thread?157401 Windows compatibility, and the opensource world can improve things that Microsoft so far has not been able or willing to fix due to so-called 'compatibility concerns'. Thu, 31 Aug 2006 08:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kaiwai) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?157412 http://www.osnews.com/thread?157412 I was about to say the same thing-- The mouse is probably jumpy because the VMWare Additions aren't installed. For me this happens with a lot of operating systems. Admittedly I haven't tried ReactOS but I'm confident that this is the case.

However I don't know if they actually work on ReactOS-- They are just standard drivers after all and I'm not sure if they're supported yet (?) Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (PJBonoVox) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?157425 http://www.osnews.com/thread?157425 > Windows compatibility, and the opensource world can
> improve things that Microsoft so far has not been able
> or willing to fix due to so-called 'compatibility
> concerns'.

If it was really about compatibility (which sounds reasonable to me), then ReactOS might get stuck at the same points because one of their goals *is* to be compatible with Windows.

But then, with many eyes looking at the problem, one may find a good solution. Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Morin) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?157458 http://www.osnews.com/thread?157458 What file format are they running in right now?

I see on their roadmap that they intend to have full read/write support by the 0.5 release. Are they planning on using something based on the NTFS-3G driver? Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (RedIcculus) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?157491 http://www.osnews.com/thread?157491 Will it actually run Windows apps? This might be the ticket for us that have to run one or two Windows applications. Does it do any better than Wine? Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jimcooncat) Comments