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The State of ReactOS's Crazy Open Source Windows Replacement

Posted by timothy on from the still-waters-run-deep dept.

jeditobe writes with a link to a talk (video recorded, with transcript) about a project we've been posting about for years: ambitious Windows-replacement ReactOS: "In this talk, Alex Ionescu, lead kernel developer for the ReactOS project since 2004 (and recently returning after a long hiatus) will talk about the project's current state, having just passed revision 60000 in the SVN repository. Alex will also cover some of the project's goals, the development and testing methodology being such a massive undertaking (an open source project to reimplement all of Windows from scratch!), partnership with other open source projects (MinGW, Wine, Haiku, etc...). Alex will talk both about the infrastructure side about running such a massive OS project (but without Linux's corporate resources), as well as the day-to-day development challenges of a highly distributed team and the lack of Win32 internals knowledge that makes it hard to recruit. Finally, Alex will do a few demos of the OS, try out a few games and applications, Internet access, etc, and of course, show off a few blue screens of death."

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  1. BSOD as a replacement feature? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Making it not crash would be moving away from emulating windows, I guess?

    1. Re:BSOD as a replacement feature? by rjune · · Score: 4, Funny

      If they're getting BSOD's aren't they about 90% complete?

  2. Good number by Sarten-X · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just over 5120 more revisions to go until a nice round number!

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  3. Does it come with a Ballmulator? by fey000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Will there be a Ballmer emulator as well? I could use one of those in my stock market crash simulator.

  4. Re:Wine and ReactOS are casualties by OakDragon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Stupidity and malice for the win!

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  5. Re:Wine and ReactOS are casualties by marcosdumay · · Score: 4, Funny

    Stupidity is a entropy-like quantity, not energy-like. It isn't conserved, but it can not decrease.

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  6. Re:Wine and ReactOS are casualties by alexhs · · Score: 1, Funny

    A person of average intelligence wouldn't be capable of managing a project that large.

    You never heard of Longhorn, did you ? :)

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  7. Re: ReactOS takes an initiative by DickBreath · · Score: 3, Funny

    > Any idiot who thinks C++ is a bad language, should be digging ditches for a living.

    That may be true. But any smart person who thinks C++ is a bad language is probably making money using a different language.

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