OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/24575/ReactOS_0_3_13_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Fri, 24 May 2013 00:36:53 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Nice http://www.osnews.com/thread?468129 http://www.osnews.com/thread?468129 I know its still aplha, but I've really seen some dramatic improvement over the past couple of years. Old simplistic programs I wrote for windows have gradually started to work on ReactOS. Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Bill Shooter of Bul) Comments RE: Nice http://www.osnews.com/thread?468132 http://www.osnews.com/thread?468132 Haven't tried Reactos in a while but will definately try this new version out.

From what I've seen/read of it I've always liked the NT kernel architecture (never been very keen on the win32 subsystem though...) and having an open source implementation of it is great. As for compability I know there's been work on leveraging wine for win32, is this available in the official distribution or is it a separate distribution? Also is there a huge difference in compability between these versions.

And congratulations to the Reactos team for making it into SOC again! Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Valhalla) Comments RE[2]: Nice http://www.osnews.com/thread?468134 http://www.osnews.com/thread?468134
And congratulations to the Reactos team for making it into SOC again!


Indeed - I know this probably doesn't matter to a lot of people, but ReactOS had a lengthy "dry spell" when it came to GSoC. This year they put a ton of effort into their ideas page and application submission and it worked out great ;)

Congrats to the renewed enthusiasm that the ReactOS team used to pull things together this year!

I was half-expecting ReactOS to get in, and Haiku to be left out this year ;) Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (umccullough) Comments Before someone asks... http://www.osnews.com/thread?468138 http://www.osnews.com/thread?468138 Before someone asks (like in every single ReactOS related news article) why this project exists in the first place when we already have Linux and windows, it's because *they can*. People should have the freedom to write whatever applications they want or develop any technology they want. Mon, 28 Mar 2011 19:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (hussam) Comments RE: Before someone asks... http://www.osnews.com/thread?468140 http://www.osnews.com/thread?468140 And the ability to run Linux with a stable reactOS in vmware to run Windows apps would be fantastic. Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Gone fishing) Comments RE[2]: Before someone asks... http://www.osnews.com/thread?468143 http://www.osnews.com/thread?468143 I think it would be better for ReactOS to merge with unified kernel.

If unified ever work fine, as it start to do (apparently), it is a better way to run Windows apps and drivers in Linux as it is just a kernel module that add windows compatibility. Add this to the Galium3D directX state tracker and you solve the second problem (OSS driver will still suck). Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Elv13) Comments Main page http://www.osnews.com/thread?468152 http://www.osnews.com/thread?468152 Why on earth is this article not on the main page?
This is a lot more interesting than the endless updates on Nokia's recent identity crisis, and even news about the latest updates regarding Unicorns®.
Yes, I'm looking at you Tom! Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (froh) Comments Distro http://www.osnews.com/thread?468154 http://www.osnews.com/thread?468154 A cool idea would be creating a "distro" based on ReactOS with a complete set of win32 open source applications running as first-class citizens on top of ReactOS.Edited 2011-03-29 00:00 UTC Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ebasconp) Comments RE: Distro http://www.osnews.com/thread?468167 http://www.osnews.com/thread?468167 I've been working on such a distribution for quite some while, called ReactOS++.

As soon as the networking stack is implemented, I will continue working on ReactOS++.

And with the Win32 port of KDE in mind, that could become very interesting IMO. ;-)Edited 2011-03-29 03:55 UTC Tue, 29 Mar 2011 03:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ml2mst) Comments RE[2]: Distro http://www.osnews.com/thread?468168 http://www.osnews.com/thread?468168 Yes, really cool!!!

Having a full Qt environment running on top of it could be also the base of a new set of applications able to run on ReactOS.... and windows, and linux, and bsds, and macs, and..... etc. Tue, 29 Mar 2011 04:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ebasconp) Comments RE[3]: Distro http://www.osnews.com/thread?468173 http://www.osnews.com/thread?468173 Good news! Too little too late for ReactOS++. I just fooled around with the Qemu version and noticed the ReactOS team have already implemented a package manager them selves. I have the idea networking also works now. Will install it on Bare metal today. Tue, 29 Mar 2011 05:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ml2mst) Comments RE[3]: Before someone asks... http://www.osnews.com/thread?468193 http://www.osnews.com/thread?468193 A unified kernel is a terrible idea and really foreign to the way Linux is developed. Do you remember OS/2? No? Ever wonder why not? Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sorpigal) Comments Mono works now? http://www.osnews.com/thread?468198 http://www.osnews.com/thread?468198 According to the release notes, Mono 2.8 works now. I assume that means that I could develop and run .NET 4 apps on ReactOS. This is a significant development. I certainly be giving that a try today! Tue, 29 Mar 2011 13:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tanishaj) Comments RE[4]: Before someone asks... http://www.osnews.com/thread?468235 http://www.osnews.com/thread?468235 Because Microsoft took it and turned it into Windows NT ;) Edited 2011-03-29 20:38 UTC Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dragossh) Comments RE: Mono works now? http://www.osnews.com/thread?468240 http://www.osnews.com/thread?468240 I'll try Qt creator on it! ;) Tue, 29 Mar 2011 21:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ebasconp) Comments Openwatcom http://www.osnews.com/thread?468286 http://www.osnews.com/thread?468286 Last time I tried it, ReactOS was not stable enough to even open an Internet connection (yeah it was a while ago), but the real acid test for an opensource Windows clone would be having it autohost with OpenWatcom. Wed, 30 Mar 2011 04:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pfgbsd) Comments RE[5]: Before someone asks... http://www.osnews.com/thread?468338 http://www.osnews.com/thread?468338 No.

Microsoft did take their part of the joint project with IBM and eventually rolled out NT. Meanwhile IBM took their part and rolled out OS/2. It was a nice platform which nobody developed for because IBM made it compatible with Microsoft's stuff, meaning that there was no incentive to write apps for OS/2 since apps for DOS and Windows would run just fine on OS/2 most of the time. IBM inadvertently gave developers incentive to support Windows and not IBM's own system by implementing top notch compatibility. Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sorpigal) Comments