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ReactOS 0.2.3 Released

Posted by timothy on from the reactionary dept.

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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  1. Great by anonymous+cowherd+(m · · Score: 3, Insightful
    If this gets to the point where it can run a lot of popular Windows applications flawlessly, Microsoft will have to introduce some more undocumented system calls and other incompatibilities to make life difficult. My memory is a little fuzzy on this, but I seem to recall them doing this when updating DOS versions. Mysteriously, certain competitor's apps stopped working...

    Either that, or MS will switch from being an OS vendor to a support vendor.

    Yeah right, and monkeys will fly out my butt.

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  2. Re:Interesting by turgid · · Score: 1, Insightful
    This way we would have a system capable of running Windows applications _and_ Linux applications.... which would be very nice.

    Isn't that what WINE is for?

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