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OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/20162/ReactOS_0_3_6_released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:34:19 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com nice http://osnews.com/thread?326087 http://osnews.com/thread?326087 Nice to see ReactOS coming along,
btw, if you're around Linux World, go see them, they share a booth with Haiku

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mmu_man) Comments Heck, yeah http://osnews.com/thread?326104 http://osnews.com/thread?326104 We have to be very very patient, but I think the wait will be worth it. I can't wait to use the 1.0. Who knows, maybe 5-10 years down the road

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Liquidator) Comments RE: Heck, yeah http://osnews.com/thread?326108 http://osnews.com/thread?326108 That is still before XPs end of life.

So no need to upgrade

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kragil) Comments great! http://osnews.com/thread?326111 http://osnews.com/thread?326111 I love these guys!
It's really crazy to write a fully windows compatible operating system but these guys seems to have sucsess!

And that's phanomenal. I really like to see how the future versions do in Tests. Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SK8T) Comments RE: Heck, yeah http://osnews.com/thread?326117 http://osnews.com/thread?326117

We have to be very very patient, but I think the wait will be worth it. I can't wait to use the 1.0. Who knows, maybe 5-10 years down the road

They actually has roadmap unlike most open source projects which shows 0.5 by 2008. I would think they get 1.0 out by 2010. Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Karitku) Comments Beta http://osnews.com/thread?326118 http://osnews.com/thread?326118 Waiting for this to hit beta so I can test it out and give my two cents.

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (motang) Comments And a nice roadmap :-) http://osnews.com/thread?326124 http://osnews.com/thread?326124 What I like about their development process is this very early bug hunting and focus on compatibility and stability rather than a let's-make-it-boot-and-be-fancy. I especially liked the code review idea, considering that ReactOS's final target is, essentially, a piece of Microsoft's cake. Way to go! Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (alexandru_lz) Comments Nice to see http://osnews.com/thread?326128 http://osnews.com/thread?326128 It's nice to see ReactOS progressing again. I didn't knew they were porting it to ARM and PowerPC. I know this is good for platform independence, buy I can't stop thinking they should be better putting more energy in bringing in more stability and compatibility. I mean, The point to having a Windows clone is to run windows apps, but there's no PPC Windows apps on the market. The ARM port could be useful to replace Windows CE but that's about it.

I also think it's funny to have ReactOS around while Microsoft as started to talk about Midori. Suddenly this look like FreeDOS a bit more! Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (werfu) Comments RE: Nice to see http://osnews.com/thread?326130 http://osnews.com/thread?326130 Well... If you read the newsletter, the port to ARM allowed a lot of bugs to be uncovered and squashed that helped the X86 version.

So, it's not wasted effort.

I wish some more programmers would jump into this project, but I think they're doing the best they can with the number of contributors they have.

AROS is proceding at about the same speed. Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Mage66) Comments RE: Nice to see http://osnews.com/thread?326147 http://osnews.com/thread?326147 Seems to me that the ReactOS guys are porting their OS to other platforms for the same reasons ID software is porting Doom/Quake/ET to Linux:
A. Because they can. (Trust me, nothing beats seeing your software run on 5 different platforms

)
B. It helps them uncover bugs on their original platform. (The lower you get [kernel/drivers] the more the platform behaves differently - hence, new and interesting bugs...)

Plus, they most likely thinking about a Windows CE replacement.

- Gilboa Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gilboa) Comments Excuse me but.... http://osnews.com/thread?326156 http://osnews.com/thread?326156 errr.. commented on the wrong article heh, my bad :-)Edited 2008-08-07 23:05 UTC Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (hartvig) Comments RE: Nice to see http://osnews.com/thread?326162 http://osnews.com/thread?326162 If Midori sees the light of day before about 2060, I will eat one of my own arms.

ReactOS has the potential to be the most serious competitor to Windows ever.

It looks a bit Win95-esque at the moment, but I think once it is functionally complete, and a Novell (or similar) picks it up, it is definitely game on.

I mean if you're a Windows user and you can get something that looks, feels and acts like Windows for free without the activation rubbish, why wouldn't you? Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (HappyGod) Comments RE[2]: Nice to see http://osnews.com/thread?326163 http://osnews.com/thread?326163 win95esque? I'm on Vista and it looks win95esque. The first thing any 'real' windows user does upon install is turn off the cheesy glass/aero/dancing menus
:) Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ari-free) Comments RE[3]: Nice to see http://osnews.com/thread?326164 http://osnews.com/thread?326164 Yeah I know. Me too actually :-)

But I just meant it will probably need some cosmetic surgery before release.

If only so we have something to turn off! Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (HappyGod) Comments RE: Nice to see http://osnews.com/thread?326176 http://osnews.com/thread?326176 Well, NT-based Windows was designed to be portable, even if non-x86 apps never really made a big impact. Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Johann Chua) Comments Future of ReactOS http://osnews.com/thread?326187 http://osnews.com/thread?326187 Once ReactOS reaches a usable beta state, the development will pick up pace a lot because it will start attracting more code contributers. Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (hussam) Comments RE[3]: Nice to see http://osnews.com/thread?326193 http://osnews.com/thread?326193 No, that's the first thing geeks who think it actually improves performance do. Smart geeks will realize after a few days that it looks like ass, and is probably slower, certainly no faster, and re-enable Aero.

win95esque? I'm on Vista and it looks win95esque. The first thing any 'real' windows user does upon install is turn off the cheesy glass/aero/dancing menus
:)

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (joshv) Comments Nice... http://osnews.com/thread?326244 http://osnews.com/thread?326244 I've always admired the design of Windows NT and an open source alternative to MS's own bloated implementations of it will be a good thing once it reaches a better state. At the moment, though, Linux+Wine still throughly trounces ReactOS in terms of user-level compatability. Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (madcrow) Comments Here, have some Wine http://osnews.com/thread?326471 http://osnews.com/thread?326471 If you are looking for Widows OS-emulating software versions >1.0, you could always try out Wine on any Linux distribution of your choice. Runs a lot of Windows software in default config, and lots more if you tweak it a bit. If tweaking is not your cup of tea, or if you want to run Win32 games or a broader spectrum of Win32 programs in Linux, there are always the wine-derived Crossover or Cedega.

But really, according to the discussions re: "lets go to Midori"; if people really think that cutting the Win32 backwards-compatibility cord is the way to go, that can easily be done today by loading Linux and a using any of the huge number of Linux-native free programs that replace Microsoft equivalents. Oh, and it's free, too. Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dsuse) Comments RE[3]: Nice to see http://osnews.com/thread?326570 http://osnews.com/thread?326570

win95esque? I'm on Vista and it looks win95esque. The first thing any 'real' windows user does upon install is turn off the cheesy glass/aero/dancing menus
:)

because having an OS that also looks good is such a bad thing....(referring to the glass/aero, not so much the "dancing menus").

Meanwhile everyone else is happy that their OS finally looks good in the UI department, more like the competition one might say. Everyone still has different tastes but for me Aero was a welcome improvement.

For me it has no negative impact on productivity and is simply more pleasant to look at. Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pixel8r) Comments