Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 12th Sep 2007 21:46 UTC
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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2007-02-17
No, I have it the correct way around.
Literally tens of thousands of pieces of malware and literally millions upon millions of rooted Windows systems says that you have it entirely the wrong way around. What we want (as end users) is to ditch Windows and Windows applications as much as is practicable.
It is by far more sensible to have a secure and capable OS as your base host OS, and then virtualize the insecure wonky OS that you are only keeping because of backwards compatibility for a handful of legacy binary applications.
Besides, virtualization comes free with the Linux kernel:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel-based_Virtual_Machine
A pretty picture of how it would be (substitute ReactOS where you see Windows XP in the picture):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Harumphy.kvm.screenshot.png
Edited 2007-09-13 01:47