The ReactOS project has released the first release candidate for version 0.3.3 of their Windows NT-inspired operating system. "We just released the first pre-release (RC1) of the upcoming 0.3.3. Certainly, it contains even more bugs than the alpha-quality software could contain, but we are still doing our best to reduce amount of certain glitches and misbehaviour."
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Dude, it's an alpha replacement of the most pirated piece of software ever. Of course nobody uses it! At least not right now...
Give it a good 5 years, let it grow, become sable and compatible enough hardware and applications (Office 200X, DirectX games latter on) and the users will come.
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Give it a good 5 years, let it grow, become sable and compatible enough hardware and applications (Office 200X, DirectX games latter on) and the users will come.
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The only problem is that we've been hearing this (from ReactOS *promoters*, not developers, mind you) for the past 10 years. Indeed, what I usually hear is "in just two more years..."
I wish them luck. They're chasing a moving target and only Microsoft's Lawyers know what will happen if they actually release something that works. It would be cool if they get away with it, but I personally can't see how they won't be trampling all over MS' IP (patents, mind you, not copyrights; the clean room reverse engineering doesn't deal with patents). OTOH, by the time something really appears, maybe all the pertinent patents will have expired :-)
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2005-08-27
OK, so now I am wondering: How many people really use ReactOS?
I mean really use it.