Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 22nd Jan 2008 21:35 UTC, submitted by gedmurphy
The ReactOS team has released version 0.3.4 of its NT compatible operating system and discusses a new and improved release cycle and lists the huge number of updates and improvements since the last release. Some screenshots can been found here.
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Member since:2007-01-27
That wouldn't be too hard a thing to do actually. Unlike the old days we have virtualisation solutions today that can create a hardware environment that the OS is certain to function on.
So whatever the real hardware may be at that time, you can still enjoy a nice and stable legacy OS that will, in the case of Windows, run better and more comfortable under virtualisation than on real hardware.
The licensing part remains, of course, and that's where ReactOS comes in. A free OS to run your application on, installed on either physical or virtual hardware.
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Another potential use for ReactOS is to offer legacy support for old Windows apps some time in the future.
In a few years time you may have some ancient crusty app that does something very important for your company, but for some reason doesn't run on the two latest versions of windows. You could either try to find an old, unsupported version of the latest version of windows that the program worked on and try to get that working on whatever hardware is around then. Or you can install the latest version of ReactOS, which has activly maintained and run your app on that.