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ReactOS 0.4.2 Released: Supports Linux Filesystems, .NET Applications, and Doom 3 (reactos.org)
Continuing its rapid release cycle, ReactOS has unveiled version 0.4.2 of its free "open-source binary-compatible Windows re-implementation." Slashdot reader jeditobe reports that this new version can now read and write various Linux/Unix file systems like Btrfs and ext (and can read ReiserFS and UFS), and also runs applications like Thunderbird and 7-Zip.
ReactOS 0.4.2 also features Cygwin support, .NET 2.0 and 4.0 application support, among other updated packages and revised external dependencies such as Wine and UniATA. The team also worked to improve overall user experience...
ReactOS is free. You can boot your desktop or laptop from it. It looks like Windows (a 10-year-old version, anyway), so you already know how to use it. And it'll run some Windows and DOS applications, maybe including DOS games that regular 64-bit Windows can no longer touch. These videos even show ReactOS running Elder Scrolls: Skyrim and Doom 3.
ReactOS is free. You can boot your desktop or laptop from it. It looks like Windows (a 10-year-old version, anyway), so you already know how to use it. And it'll run some Windows and DOS applications, maybe including DOS games that regular 64-bit Windows can no longer touch. These videos even show ReactOS running Elder Scrolls: Skyrim and Doom 3.
For the longest time, article after article of slow progress I did not even think the developers took this seriously beyond beyond some coding fun. Color me impressed. This might take off in a few years. Now that I think of it, I am reminded of another OS that was relegated "maybe someday".
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Oh, look. It's the same schmuck who posted essentially the same message on the SpaceX Dragon post.
Hey, putz, if it doesn't interest you, just move along. There are billions of other sites, surely one of them must have something of interest.
Slashdot has been posting stories like that for 20 years and lots of "anyone" are happy to read and comment *constructively.
In short, GTFO and HANL
I appreciate the irony of a ten year development project being in a "rapid release cycle" at version 0.42.
Tired of forced upgrades to Windows 10? Tired of not being able to select the patches to install? Tired of patches breaking entire classes of hardware and application? Kick these guys some money or contribute some of your skill and time. Linux is great for apps that have a FOSS alternative. But sometimes you just need Windows. This should be a priority for PCs everywhere.
I love it! IMO Windows 2000 was the pinnacle of windows GUIs. Everything since then has just been fisher-price inspired nonsense.
Gimma a GUI that gets the f__k out of my way and lets me focus on what I'm doing, and I'm a happy camper. If your job benefits from you having shiny translucent windows, then your job isn't very difficult to begin with. Windows 8/10 is a step in the right direction, but I think reverting to Windows 2.0 styling, overshot the mark by a smidge.
Hell, even on my Mac, which is nowhere near as overkill with the special effects as Aero is, I still disable all the extraneous transparency effects cause they serve no purpose other than to make things harder to look at.
ReactOS already is able to run Office 2007.
Also feel free to submit bug-reports related to Zotero and SolidWorks
jira.reactos.org - bug-tracker
Wanting your GUI to look like a decroded piece of shit is one thing, but the lack of Task Bar Pinning and Window Snapping alone make Win2k GUI a huge pain in the ass to use.