ReactOS 0.4.7 Released (reactos.org)

jeditobe writes: OSNews reports that the latest version of ReactOS has been released: "ReactOS 0.4.7 has been released, and it contains a ton of fixes, improvements, and new features. Judging by the screenshots, ReactOS 0.4.7 can run Opera, Firefox, and Mozilla all at once, which is good news for those among us who want to use ReactOS on a more daily basis. There's also a new application manager which, as the name implies, makes it easier to install and uninstall applications, similar to how package managers on Linux work. On a lower level, ReactOS can now deal with Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, BtrFS, ReiserFS, FFS, and NFS partitions." General notes, tests, and changelog for the release can be found at their respective links. A less technical community changelog for ReactOS 0.4.7 is also available. ISO images are ready at the ReactOS Download page.

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Re: First post!!!

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"How far it has come?!" Well seeing as when I started following it it was only a text mode command prompt and today it's a graphic system that can use Windows hardware drivers and actually run a lot of programs that were made for Windows XP, yeah, I would say it's come far and would also say they are making good progress on their goal. It initially started out to clone Windows NT but if you've even skimmed any of the material there you'd know that they're chasing a moving goal. As times change and technology advances, their goals advance with them. Yes, they do use a lot of WINE code, but what's wrong with that? It works and it saves them a shit ton of work having to implement it all themselves, plus when they do make changes to WINE they send the changes back upstream to the WINE project which helps to advance it as well. I fail to see where the real failure is here.