ReactOS 0.3.3 has been released. "The Win32 subsystem is in the beginning of a total overhaul to make it completely compatible with NT5 which may introduce various drops in application compatibility from time to time, however in the 0.3.3 release it has had a positive impact on stability and compatibility with Win32 applications. As a generic result of these internal changes, the system feels a lot more stable in comparison to previous releases, and could be run on a real hardware (though usual limitations still apply - no USB, SATA, NTFS)." The screenshots page has been updated as well.
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Member since:2005-07-08
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I don't know about that. If you have proprietary drivers that work, but have an OS that is no longer supported by the company behind it... well, suddenly it's not so stupid.
Besides that, there are open drivers as well (ext2fs drivers and some other fs-drivers in more or less working state).
Member since:2007-02-17
I disagree.
If ReactOS gets good enough to be able to run most Win32 binaries, then I would run it virtualized under Linux in a few years time in order to maintain legacy applications.
If it catches a virus, no biggie ... just wipe, rinse and restore from an image.
ReactOS virtualized under Linux could potentially become an ideal way to maintain support for legacy, binary, Windows-only cruft that you may find that you still need to keep running.
Member since:2005-07-06
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Out of pure curiosity I ask: Why is that? What would make ReactOS so unstable and inconsistent that it would dissatisfy me? Would it give me as many BSODs as NT4 did? Win2K and Win2K3 are much better than NT4, but lacks consistency in the interface.
Considering the amount of bugs in GNU/Linux, *BSD, Windows 2K/XP/2K3 and pretty much all software only poor performance and lack of stability can dissatisfy me. But I doubt that ReactOS 1.0 will have poor performance and low level of stability. FLOSS software generally don't reach the 1.0-milestone without having good performance and stability. Gnome 1.0 was an exception to that rule (as stable as windows 3.x).
Member since:2006-12-30
Reactos still runs on fat32 harddisks NTFS development hasnt even begun , they should have focused on ditching the overactive desktop concept too since you cant totally remove it from reactos even if you choose to , they should also keep it minimal and get the most importain things running on it before adding wormholes such as RPC service and stuff , makes me believe they want their os to be phoning home.
Furthermore the size is quite big for not having all basic functionality such as Ntfs plug & play support and full drivers support .
But Since Vista a terrible product has arrived i would really rather switch to reactos provided that in the distant future when everyone made the Vista switch they reverse engeneer it to support both Nt5 and Nt6 series of driver support.
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2005-10-02
You must be blind.
If you take a look at the right column on the front page, you will see a box which says:
ReactOS Auditing
99.5% complete
For further information on the audit status, please visit the related ReactOS-Wiki page.
I even have a screenshot, made just for you
http://www.uploadgeek.com/uploads456/1/reactos-frontpage-auditing.p...
There never was pirated code in ReactOS. So far none is found, and there is only 0.5% to go. It is unlikely that the unproven claims would be proved by the last remaining 49 files.
FreeWin95 has little to do with ReactOS except for the wish to recreate Windows API. ReactOS is coming nicely along and has a quite nice compatibility already. They can pull it off. They are not trying to be ahead of Microsoft. They are trying to create an open Windows system for those who don't want to buy expensive hardware to run the newest buggy release from Microsoft.