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ReactOS 0.4.5 Released (reactos.org)
An anonymous reader shares Colin Finck's forum post announcing ReactOS version 0.4.5: The ReactOS Project is pleased to release version 0.4.5 as a continuation of its three month cadence. Beyond the usual range of bug fixes and syncs with external dependencies, a fair amount of effort has gone into the graphical subsystem. Thanks to the work of Katayama Hirofumi and Mark Jansen, ReactOS now better serves requests for fonts and font metrics, leading to an improved rendering of applications and a more pleasant user experience. Your continued donations have also funded a contract for Giannis Adamopoulos to fix every last quirk in our theming components. The merits of this work can be seen in ReactOS 0.4.5, which comes with a smoother themed user interface and the future promises to bring even more improvements. In another funded effort, Hermes Belusca-Maito has got MS Office 2010 to run under ReactOS, another application from the list of most voted apps. On top of this, there have been several major fixes in the kernel and drivers that should lead to stability improvements on real hardware and on long-running machines. The general notes, tests, and changelog for the release can be found at their respective links. ISO images and prepared VMs for testing can be downloaded here.
Soon it will catch up with GNU Hurd
Slashdot posted this on the main page and didn't want to post that ArcaOS was released ??? https://www.arcanoae.com/produ...
You've got competition!
OS/2 isnt open source,.
EXcept Windoze Micro$oft
And you talk funny. Hoboken?
I mean, just run Windows NT in a vm and away you go. Seems like a colossal waste of time.
ReactOS is an open source NT environment. Much like Linux is an open source POSIX environment, but with fewer rabid fans and at an earlier stage of development.
ReactOS may have started with mainly Russian developers, but is today an open-source project with collaborators from all over the world. The project has no allegiance to any country or political organisation.
ReactOS is a safe, secure, open-source and Windows binary compatible OS, that's all there is to it.
...somebody really needs to talk to these writers pimping the distros about appropriate language. Who unfamiliar with Linux would ever spend time with an operating system touting how much better its stability or font choices are now, compared to the previous release? It's like Ford saying, "Hey, get this new Camry, the brakes work pretty well now!" Or Chevrolet touting its new Silverado with "At Last! The radio stations all come in clearly! Yay, us!"
Again, I love Linux, and have been using it on my desktop since the 90s, but no one should ever wonder why it struggles to gain acceptance -- or, for that matter, why The GIMP will never get the traction of a PhotoShop.
Holy cow, I am more than happy with Office 2007, for my scientific publishing! If Firefox (for Zotero) works, too, I would be 70% there to ditch Windows.
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
I thought this is supposed to be free. Built by the sweat and tears of volunteers. Why would they need funding if it's free? We're told software (and by extension, music) doesn't cost anything which is why "sharing" (with 100 million of your "friends") doesn't cost companies anything.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
crossover seems to run a hell of a lot more than this junk
Trying to basically create a clone of an operating system that is past it's prime -- and by the time it is "fully functional" all the software that you wanted to keep running on a WinXP clone has long past it's prime....
Effort would be best spent trying to create a new OS or new UI for an existing open source OS but this just seems like taking a love of an old UI to an insane level. For gods sake, it started it's history almost 20 years ago....
Even Free stuff developed by volunteers need money for their basic operating fees (ie : do you think their website hosts itself out of thin air?)
0.4.5 Does this mean that it is half way to being half way to being released?
Overwatch??
I'm guessing not. When it can function well as a gaming system alternative to Windows we will be getting somewhere. Until then, I'll continue to run Linux with Wine. Maybe I'll put ReactOS on my old rig and do some testing.
What the hell is "ReactOS"?
A fine example of enginuity is how NDISwrapper was written to use Micro$oft network adapter driver code on Linux.
Qemu brings everything else that Wine cant.
I've been donating to the project for a few years. I hope it is helping the developers focus more time on working on ReactOS and getting the resources they need. My long term plan is to switch to ReactOS once Windows 7 is killed off by Microsoft. (extended support ends January 14, 2020)
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
Ive been playing with the Floating Apps package on Android as a target for backportable development. Sun made a great desktop GUI known as Xig or whatever, likely what inspired the GUI of Android being 2.5D.
Apps arent supposed to be constricted by the OS, and Microsoft is doing just that in ways of politics and policies not configurable in their goddamn Control Panel.
To be configured while running a Win32 application and not need to restart is what people wanted, not a standalone. Wine was said to be a performance edge by bringing Win32 to the kernel, only professional gamers would benefit from lower latencies of IO.
was written by DEC employees, not Microsoft. NT4 on DEC Alpha was merely Microsoft api sitting on VMS, and you had a high performant gui with low latency io that you could tell wasn't from Microsoft. DEC Alpha Windows NT4 is unlike any version of Windows. Also consider that all other NT4 OS ports had terrible USB drivers and Microsoft made the upgradepath to just more hardware drivers. Private companies already embraced and extended NT to provide those without Microsoft. So what the hell is Microsoft doing, an architecture or a paperboy route?
Lots of Evidence Windows 2000 can be run with modern hatdware and drivers backported to it. NT4 on DEC Alpha is faster bootup feel than was the assumed Instant-On of an Apple Mac.
What's the point of putting a failed OSS project on the front page. ReactOS has been trying for 20 years, at this point when they are done with their XP clone there will be no software that runs on it.
Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
I wonder if it is fully compatible with the wide range of viruses, trojans, worms and other vulnerabilities that Windows NT supports?
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Leave comments. I'd like to know. I've been struggling with trying to get Linux Mint working with WINE for the one or two pieces of software that there are no Linux equivalents of, and if this ReactOS is looking decent I'd try it. Please don't query me about 'what Windows software I can't do without' or similar, please stick with the question I'm asking, thanks. :-)
I want the real Windows experience with ReactOS. Is it vulnerable to WanaCry/WannaDecrypt0r?
I'll just wait for a more compatible version if it is not. Otherwise, I'll be missing out.
As a minimum, ReactOS needs to add support for fuse so that ntfs (ntfs3g) may be used.
At this point, support for ext4 or some modern journaled file system is expected.
Politics of the project prevent anything but FAT.
Is if Microsoft officially released all of the source code to both Windows XP and Windows Phone on GitHub. It would be a strategic move to find and fix all of the security issues in the Windows platform, cause GitHub to crash repeatedly (that's a bonus for Microsoft), absolutely crush it in the mobile space, and have the minor side effect of shutting down ReactOS and any similar projects overnight. iOS would also suddenly be the oddball OS without public source code in the mobile world we live in.
Improved graphics in ReactOS is like improving the quality of a jump off a cliff: the improvements may be nice for an observer, but as the person jumping, my patience for testing ReactOS is nearing an end. If you get it working and charge 10% of what Microsoft charges, you will retire early, and I'll ask you to STFU and take my money.
But so far I haven't found a version of ReactOS that gets past my first attempts at using the internet: something bizarre always goes wrong that I can't find documentation for, and I admit, I'm not going to try very hard when I'm a Linux user since 1992 where shit works.
But I must admit: get this working, and you are on to something really, hugely big. I offer to carry you through the ticker-tape parade that will thank you for eliminating Micro$oft.