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Posted March 21, 2012
This is acutally pretty interesting: some one is making a Windows XP/2003 clone, that aims to be Windows software compatible. It seems to be in alpha stage and not recommended for daily use.

I wonder how long it takes for MS to shut this down.

And the link: http://www.reactos.org
Posted March 21, 2012
ReactOS started in 1998.
Post edited March 21, 2012 by TheJoe
Posted March 21, 2012
First time I heard of it. Have you tried it?
Posted March 21, 2012
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tomimt: First time I heard of it. Have you tried it?
Yes. It simply doesn't work. I don't think it ever will.
Posted March 21, 2012
Real development didn't really start in earnest until around 2004, and it was held up for the best part of a year when accusations were made that the codebase included code from the XP source code lea

That, and creating a full-blown OS with full Windows driver support on the basis of clean-room reverse engineering takes a lot of time. The alpha version I've seen running takes a lot of effort to get running and compatibility is sporadic, but I've seen OpenOffice, zDoom and World of Goo running on it just fine.

It'll work eventually, but I wouldn't bet on a relatively stable beta for the next 3 years or so.
Post edited March 21, 2012 by jamyskis
Posted March 21, 2012
This is a lawsuit just waiting to happen since MS is very protective of its code.
Posted March 21, 2012
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tomimt: This is acutally pretty interesting: some one is making a Windows XP/2003 clone, that aims to be Windows software compatible. It seems to be in alpha stage and not recommended for daily use.

I wonder how long it takes for MS to shut this down.

And the link: http://www.reactos.org
It's a Windows XP compatible system and still in alpha stages. I don't think Microsoft will ever shut this down since they could do it years ago. And since it's only XP compatible this project is already dead.
Posted March 21, 2012
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JudasIscariot: This is a lawsuit just waiting to happen since MS is very protective of its code.
But it's already been established that ReactOS has not been created using Microsoft code. In fact, I believe Microsoft was actually involved in the audit.

The project aims to recreate the XP kernel and a GUI around it, not a full recreation of Windows itself. I hardly think Microsoft really sees as a threat, and I think the potential gains are far outweighed by the likely PR nuclear fallout that would arise from such a lawsuit.

Ask SCO - they know :)
Posted March 21, 2012
The ReactOS project has been in perpetual limbo for a long time. I wouldn't get my hopes up about them. I would stick with wine or DOSBox for emulating games. Or just use VirtualBox and install windows xp on it.
Post edited March 21, 2012 by Thunderstone
Posted March 21, 2012
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jamyskis: Real development didn't really start in earnest until around 2004, and it was held up for the best part of a year when accusations were made that the codebase included code from the XP source code lea

That, and creating a full-blown OS with full Windows driver support on the basis of clean-room reverse engineering takes a lot of time. The alpha version I've seen running takes a lot of effort to get running and compatibility is sporadic, but I've seen OpenOffice, zDoom and World of Goo running on it just fine.

It'll work eventually, but I wouldn't bet on a relatively stable beta for the next 3 years or so.
Hell, look at WINE and see how long they took to get to 1.0; and even then I'd argue that it wasn't until very recently with the 1.4 release that things really picked up with respect to compatibility and performance. A lot of games like Shogo: MAD, Blood 2, Fallout 2, and Fallout 1 were nigh unplayable before 1.4.
Posted March 21, 2012
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tomimt: This is acutally pretty interesting: some one is making a Windows XP/2003 clone, that aims to be Windows software compatible. It seems to be in alpha stage and not recommended for daily use.

I wonder how long it takes for MS to shut this down.

And the link: http://www.reactos.org
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gyokzoli: It's a Windows XP compatible system and still in alpha stages. I don't think Microsoft will ever shut this down since they could do it years ago. And since it's only XP compatible this project is already dead.
They've been in alpha for the better part of a half-decade now.
Posted March 21, 2012
Agree with TheJoe above, the last time I checked this... uh, maybe a couple years ago, it did not work. Too lazy to check it again now.
Posted March 21, 2012
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Thunderstone: The ReactOS project has been in perpetual limbo for a long time. I wouldn't get my hopes up about them. I would stick with wine or DOSBox for emulating games. Or just use VirtualBox and install windows xp on it.
So this would make it the Duke Nukem Forever of operating systems?
Posted March 21, 2012
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Thunderstone: The ReactOS project has been in perpetual limbo for a long time. I wouldn't get my hopes up about them. I would stick with wine or DOSBox for emulating games. Or just use VirtualBox and install windows xp on it.
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JudasIscariot: So this would make it the Duke Nukem Forever of operating systems?
That's a good way of putting it
Posted March 22, 2012
You know, after years of development we now have a working MS-DOS alternative (FreeDOS), so I expect ReactOS to achieve, *eventually*, its goals in the foreseeable future....
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