ReactOS Revealed

reactosfanboy writes "DRM Hacker Alex Ionescu explained the internals of ReactOS in a recent talk. Ionescu indicates that ReactOS is nearly 100% binary and API compatible with the Windows 2003 kernel, and that they are aiming for full Vista compatibility. Ionescu attempted to demonstrate ReactOS but only succeeded in installing it after two BSoDs. This alone should make it clear that ReactOS is still not ready for prime time." In what may be a red flag for Microsoft's lawyers, ReactOS is described as "an environment identical to Windows, both visually and internally." Here are slides from Ionescu's talk (PDF), which might prove more useful than the video offered in various forms at over 450 MB.

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Re:On the contrary...

[Captain Splendid]

Windows is not nearly as unstable as the FUDDERS would like to make it seem.

Of course not, but you're still one lucky bastard.

Sure, win2k was a huge step up (well, after SP2, anyway). But don't kid yourself into thinking it crashed less than previous versions, it's just that it didn't tend to fubar your data up when it did. You can talk all you want about how much more reliable its become (true), but that still doesn't change the fact that I've lost entire days of my life troubleshooting some random, obscure or simply illogical "hiccup".

And don't even get me started on XP, it was fucking useless when it first came out. Yeah, yeah, I know, but it was a complete WTF for me: how and why would you want to release a shittified version of 2000?