Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 11th Mar 2007 20:18 UTC, submitted by fireball
ReactOS This is release 0.3.1 of ReactOS, an open source effort to develop an operating system that is compatible with applications and drivers written for the Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003). Mainly, the work focused on rewriting certain parts of the ReactOS Core (kernel, HAL, bootloader, etc).
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ReactOS
by OSGuy on Sun 11th Mar 2007 21:08 UTC
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2006-01-01

Yeah good work but it doesn't work on my hardware ;)

RE: ReactOS
by frik85 on Sun 11th Mar 2007 21:33 in reply to "ReactOS"
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2006-01-26

[...] Please don't forget this is an alpha-stage operating system, which means it is not suitable to replace your main OS. Also, this release is aimed to be run mostly in virtualizers / emulators (like QEmu, VMWare, Parallels, etc): because of the big amount of changes, our development team was not able to test/fix all problems which arise when running ReactOS on real hardware. [...]
https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=674175

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RE[2]: ReactOS
by OSGuy on Sun 11th Mar 2007 21:59 in reply to "RE: ReactOS"
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2006-01-01

Yeah I am aware it's an alpha ;)

But even if it wasn't an alpha, I do not expect it to work. Even FreeBSD doesn't work and most older Linux kernels -- problems with JMicron

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