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Steven Edwards On The Future Of ReactOS And Wine

Posted by simoniker on from the days-of-reactOS-and-roses dept.

Alex_Ionescu writes "WineHQ brings us the scoop on the latest developments in ReactOS, as well as on Steven Edward's excellent job on porting Wine to MingGW and linking the two platforms together. This is an interesting insight into the WINE and ReactOS project, and a must-read for anyone interested into the future of Windows-replacement projects like these."

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  1. A perfect name by foreverdisillusioned · · Score: 5, Funny

    porting Wine to MingGW

    Hey, why not call it that? "Port"! I dunno if renaming a port is unusual, but if so I think we can make an exception in this case.

  2. MingGW? by achurch · · Score: 4, Funny

    Would that be the Chinese version?

  3. Re:He plans to start using it within a year. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    Pretty amazing really. Myself and a whole lot of other folks are going to have to eat some crow. When this project was first announced, so many of us mocked it as being a pipe dream. I figured it would be like all those zillions of projects at Sourceforge that have grand ideas, but no code, no developers, and no activity . . .

    Hats off to the ReactOS crew. I'm glad to be proved wrong on this one.

  4. Re:As cool as the concept of ReactOS is... by tux_deamon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Patent-infringement lawsuit? If we're lucky.

    I wouldn't be suprised to see it spark a national security investigation over the gathering threat these FS/OSS terrorists pose to our way of life!

  5. Why clone NT4? by Knifethrower · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's 3.1 for me baby. Install Win3s's and those hacked up system files, shove calmira (calmira.de) on it and bam I've got a nice little system.

  6. Re:Good progress by gronnsak · · Score: 4, Funny

    Then just boot from a DOS floppy and run aboot.bat within C:\ReactOS.

    A Canadian project, is it?