Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 20th Mar 2007 18:38 UTC, submitted by Andareed
"The ReactOS operating system has been in development for over eight years and aims to provide users with a fully functional and Windows-compatible distribution under the GPL license. ReactOS comes with its own Windows 2003-based kernel and system utilities and applications, resulting in an environment identical to Windows, both visually and internally. This talk will introduce the ReactOS project, as well as the various software engineering challenges behind it."
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RE: What it boils down to...
by gedmurphy on Wed 21st Mar 2007 09:26
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ReactOS is currently aiming for win32 only. There is no 16 bit support in ReactOS and there never will be.
64 bit is planned for the future, but there is little point in doing this until the current code base is both stable and complete enough for it to be viable.
It should be noted that much of the ReactOS code is 64 bit friendly as the devs are aware of the future path of computing.
RE: What it boils down to...
by BrianH on Wed 21st Mar 2007 13:51
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ReactOS must "clone" an environment capable of running Win16, Win32, and Win64. On top of that, it must also inclusively implement all the .NET Framework releases. That is, if the goal is complete compatibility and implementation. To me that is not directly comparable to cloning one Windows release level, it is going beyond that.
Can anyone clarify the differences between Win64 5.x and Win64 6.x?