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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.
...but only succeeded in installing it after two BSoDs ... the Windows emulation seems perfect !
Not until all the malware works too!
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
onescu attempted to demonstrate ReactOS but only succeeded in installing it after two BSoDs. This alone should make it clear that ReactOS is ready for prime time."
Fixed.
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This has inspired me to create a ground-up 100% reimplementation of the AOL client, identical in looks and functionality. Wish me luck!
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
I just had to wonder, WHY would anyone develop another OS that is "identical" to Windows?
Windows is bad enough...why do it all over again?
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Thinking about this:
"In what may be a red flag for Microsoft's lawyers, ReactOS is described as "an environment identical to Windows, both visually and internally.""
People at the Microsoft campus must be moving the furniture out of Ballmer's office as we speak.
This is my opinion. To make sure you don't steal it, it's covered by the DMCA.
Or combine self-deprecation and blandness to create GAROFFOLO!
If ReactOS is almost a Windows clone, but a sub-par one, this begs the question of why do we need ReactOS anyway? Well, to find the answer I went straight to the source reactos.org, but apparently they haven't figured out the answer yet either.
Wine
Is
Not
Enough
brilliant!
Morbid curiosity. Kind of like when you drive past a car wreck.
How about a link to ReactOS in the summary?
This time, we don't want to take their website down.
Absolutely. The addition of CALC.EXE and SOL.EXE are going to bloat it severely.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
Whereas the Microsoft folk look at it the other way around...
/* Waste time to look like real Windows */
int i;
for(i = 0; i 1000; i++) {/*spin */}
Engineering is the art of compromise.
Most decent compilers would optimize that out. The ReactOS team would have to be *much* more clever to achieve the typical MS-Windows slowdown. If they programmed the whole thing in C#, it might just work.
Microsoft is to software what Budweiser is to beer.