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ReactOS Being Rewritten, Gets Wine Infusion

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the try-try-again dept.

xlotlu writes "ReactOS was meant as a free and open-source operating system, binary-compatible with Microsoft Windows. But after 11 years in development it never reached a satisfactory level of usability. Due to lack of developers, reimplementing the Win32 subsystem proved to be a much too complex task, holding the project back. Given the deficiencies of the current implementation, developer Aleksey Bragin decided to rewrite it from scratch, drawing heavily from the Wine project. Bragin's announcement on the ReactOS mailing list makes a compelling argument for this decision."

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  1. Re-reactOS? by davidwr · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe they should rename it?

    Re-ReactOS?

    ReactOSRebooted?

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  2. ha by nomadic · · Score: 5, Funny

    But after 11 years in development it never reached a satisfactory level of usability.

    Wait, ReactOS or Wine?

    1. Re:ha by fred+fleenblat · · Score: 5, Funny

      windows

  3. Re:Ummm...nonsense by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nonsense. His freedom to do whatever he wants far outweighs my interest in getting him to work on something else for nothing. I doubt if anything outweighs my desire for free stuff.