OSNews > Thread > "RE[4]: Tech on the street" by ari-free

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 8th May 2008 21:32 UTC

There are quite a few operating systems which have moved beyond the simple hobby operating system stage, onto a more lasting plane of existence. AROS, ReactOS, SkyOS, Syllable, Haiku; they're no longer basement products, coded by a single programer - they are now projects in which a lot of people have invested time, and possibly money too. They won't go away any time soon. The last few days have seen news on three of these systems: ReactOS, SkyOS, and Syllable.

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RE[4]: Tech on the street

by ari-free on Fri 9th May 2008 12:54 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: Tech on the street"

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http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit
I find your lack of faith disturbing.

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RE[5]: Tech on the street

by sakeniwefu on Fri 9th May 2008 16:53 in reply to "RE[4]: Tech on the street"

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2008-02-26

You can compile wine in a x64 OS, so what. You are using 32bit emulation. Wine project has stated that preliminary work in Win64 won't start until 1.0 and Reactos that they won't be considering it until Wine has something.
Wine and Reactos code is, in their own words, full of assumptions about x86. So don't expect to have anything working as soon as they bother to work on it. The original NT kernel has always been portable.
If Windows keeps the Win64API, you will have in a few years another whole lot of "legacy" apps Wine won't have any support for. And Reactos will have a harder time reimplementing yet again the GUI and the driver model.

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RE[6]: Tech on the street

by gedmurphy on Fri 9th May 2008 18:09 in reply to "RE[5]: Tech on the street"

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2005-12-23

Wine project has stated that preliminary work in Win64 won't start until 1.0 and Reactos that they won't be considering it until Wine has something.
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Wine and Reactos code is, in their own words, full of assumptions about x86.

I don't know where you heard this about reactos, but it's not true.

Edited 2008-05-09 18:10 UTC

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