Star ReactOS 0.3.5 Released
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 1st Jul 2008 15:11 UTC, submitted by elektrik
ReactOS The ReactOS project has released version 0.3.5 of their ambitious operating system. ReactOS aims to be a "ground-up implementation of a Microsoft Windows XP compatible operating system. ReactOS aims to achieve complete binary compatibility with both applications and device drivers meant for NT and XP operating systems, by using a similar architecture and providing a complete and equivalent public interface." This new version comes packed with improvements.
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ReactOS is great, but please ..
by kragil on Tue 1st Jul 2008 17:09 UTC
kragil
Member since:
2006-01-04

make it work with VirtualBox .. the live CD will not boot properly ;(

Qemu is good for non-x86 stuff, but for anything else Open Source projects should use VirtualBox.

Since version 1.6 it is fast, easy and very compatible.
And it is also Open Source.

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elanthis Member since:
2007-02-17

VirtualBox is okay, but it's not the greatest. There are still a number of things that don't work well with VirtualBox itself (like CD burning from within a VM), and its hardware support is only so-so.

Look at what kvm+qemu can do these days. Hardware accelerated GL from within the VM? Hawt.

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Redeeman Member since:
2006-03-23

and why the f*** should opensource projects use virtualbox?

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orestes Member since:
2005-07-06

To hit a wider userbase of course. You cater to your users, not the other way around. Not to say Sun doesn't have a ways to go making VirtualBox more compatible themselves, but that's a whole 'nother thread

Edited 2008-07-01 19:55 UTC

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kaiwai Member since:
2005-07-06

and why the f*** should opensource projects use virtualbox?


Ah, because virtualbox is opensource.

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yahya Member since:
2007-03-29

make it work with VirtualBox .. the live CD will not boot properly


I just booted and installed successfully from the install cd iso image in VirtualBox 1.6.2. So you might try that one if the live CD fails.

There are, however, hardly any user-visible changes from the previous version. It certainly still has a long way to go.

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