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Windows Replacement? ReactOS 0.3.16 Gets Themes, CSRSS Rewrite, and More
jeditobe writes with this announcement from the ReactOS home page: "The ReactOS Project is pleased to announce the release of version 0.3.16. A little under a year has passed since the previous release and a significant amount of progress has been made. More than 400 bugs were eliminated. Some of the most significant include completion of the CSRSS rewrite and the first stages of a shell32 rewrite. 0.3.16 is in many ways a prelude to several new features that will provide a noticeable enhancement to user visible functionality. A preview can be seen in the form of theme support, which while disabled by default can be turned on to demonstrate the Lautus theme developed by community member Maciej Janiszewki. Another user visible change is a new network card driver for the RTL8139, allowing ReactOS to support newer versions of QEMU out of the box."
You can download release images here.
Want to see how it handles Windows software? Here are demos of Office 2003, Photoshop CS2, and OpenMPT.
Join our side. It may have problems, but they can be fixed. Beta is your friend. Beta is life.
...then why not simply disable classic altogether and get it over with ?
This has me stumped too. Dice obviously doesn't give a fuck about our family. The current Slashdot without the beta has more value than they could possibly understand, and they are going to flush it down the toilet so they can pursue their "vision" of caching in on the Slashdot name. Which won't make them money like they think it will. Sad, indeed.
Mod me down too. It really doesn't matter any more.
Brave Sir Robin ran away. ("No!") Bravely ran away away. ("I didn't!")
mod parent up
CLI paste? paste.pr0.tips!
I don't really like to contribute to the off topic threads on this any more, but I have to still throw in my two cents here. Dice did buy Slashdot. It's sad that it's been bought by an entity that doesn't seem to care for the community and the history of Slashdot the way we do, but they do own it.
People have talked about boycotts and Slashdot alternatives and both of those are perfectly valid ways of attempting to influence Slashdot or just plain leave it behind. I'm wondering, however, if anyone has considered putting together an offer to Dice to buy Slashdot back from them? I've been using Slashdot since very close to the start (came in after Chips and Dips, but very shortly after that and lurked and posted as AC for a long time before getting an account). I have enough of an emotional investment in the site that I'd certainly be willing to throw a few thousand dollars into owning a piece of it. How many Slashdotters are there who care enough to do the same? Could we get together twenty thousand people willing to throw in a thousand dollars each and pay Dice the $20 million they paid for Slashdot? 200,000 willing to pay $100.00 each? Are there anything like that number of Slashdotters who really care? Anyone know what the best way to do that would be? Would a Kickstarter campaign be a valid avenue, or would it be better to create some sort of co-op or corporation and sell shares, or are there other ways a large group of people could get together to do something like this (in a form that might allow for a return on investment, but probably not)?
Has anyone already proposed this? Is anyone already working on it? I would search comments for that, but Slashdot's search tools have been broken and near useless for years, even before Dice came along. Maybe if the community actually owned Slashdot, we could do something about the problems with Slashdot. Personally, I've always wanted an open API for Slashdot so that users can use whatever front-end suits their fancy and even download the entire Slashdot database (well, not the entire database, obviously, but the comments and articles certainly). Maybe, if we owned it, we could actually do something like that and everyone, including Dice, could be happy about how it turned out.
It's probably a pipe dream, however. There's a lot of vocal complaint (enough to really damage enjoyment of Slashdot lately and I'm sorry to be adding to this thread for that reason), but I don't know if there's really enough of a "core" Slashdot readership left who would be willing to put in that much for our beloved site.