ReactOS 0.3.1 Released

fireballrus writes with news of the release of ReactOS 0.3.1 — press release, changelog, download packages. ReactOS is "an open source effort to develop a quality operating system that is compatible with applications and drivers written for the Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003)." The press release notes: "Please don't forget this is an alpha-stage operating system, which means it is not suitable to replace your main OS. Also, this release is aimed to be run mostly in virtualizers / emulators (like QEmu, VMWare, Parallels, etc): because of the big amount of changes, our development team was not able to test/fix all problems which arise when running ReactOS on real hardware."

Comments

But I have to know...

[Arceliar]

does it run cygwin?

Re:How to Avoid Vista

[linguizic]

I'm betting that Apple is making significant inroads. The idea of running XP for 7 more years drove me to buy a macbook.

Re:Nice to see them plugging ahead

[ZephyrXero]

"Is there a possibility of running this XP clone on non x86 hardware?"
maybe if you were running it through an emulator...

Re:nice to see this progress but

[catbutt]

To be fair to WINE, it is already more than just a toy. I am able to run the full Starsiege Tribes Yes, and to back up the statement that it's not a toy, I should point out that here at NASA, we are using Starsiege Tribes to design the next Mars rocket.