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ReactOS Being Rewritten, Gets Wine Infusion
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."
Here I thought it was already based on Wine. In any case, Wine has come a very long way in recent years, so hopefully they'll be able to get something usable out of this. I'll be looking forward to giving it a try in another 11 years.
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Why bother with something that tries to implement windows API's when you can have the real thing with no effort at all?
I wouldn't call it depressing at all.
It is what interest them. They want to do it.
If they want to do it then more power too them. One of the ideas behind FOSS is that people can work on what they see value in. If you see no value in it don't contribute.
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in tfa it is mentioned that it takes too much time to update the code to newer wine code, so they don't get the new features/bugfixes from wine.
this project is a sort of wrapper around wine to make the updating much easier.. so when that works they can focus on the bugs in wine itself..