ReactOS 0.2.3 Released

cuppm writes "ReactOS has just released version 0.2.3 of their free WinNT/2k clone! 'New LiveCD image, improved and more stable kernel and win32k kernel graphics subsystem, lots of networking foundation work, improved setup and better bundled explorer, command shell and drivers. Also included is newly ported user DLL code from WINE.' Download it here. It works pretty well in VMware and is progressing quickly."

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Re:Uh

[anonymous cowherd (m]

In theory, ReactOS can be ported to other platforms, so the Win32 API could becom ea sort of write-once run-anywhere system. ReactOS also can be extended quite easily, so i could have an ObjC layer if I wanted to write it.

Sure, but unless you would like to emulate the Pentium 4 as part of the OS as well, you will need to recompile the apps. That means you need source code. Good luck running MS Office on ReactOS running on any of the non-Intel, non-PPC platforms here

This does most of those who maintain both a Windows box and an OSS box absolutely no good. The only reason they have the Windows box is for that one game, app, etc, that runs only on Windows/x86.

I realize I glossed over the first part of your post by omission, but really, Wine is what you want if you want to run Windows/x86 apps on top of a *nix compatible OS.

Interesting

[winchester]

It would be interesting to use the ReactOS kernel sources, hook some decent file systems to the kernel and create a good, fully implemented posix subsystem.

This way we would have a system capable of running Windows applications _and_ Linux applications.... which would be very nice.