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Re: ReactOS

khakilang — Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:15 am

Author: khakilang

Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:15 am

RedWillow wrote:

It would indeed be interesting to read of anyone's hands-on experience. But I see that the Wikipedia page on Reactos says "The kernel is incomplete, and only a few Windows applications run without problems."

Did you find the forum on the Reactos site:

http://www.reactos.org/forum/

That might be useful to follow.

Interesting enough but I am not a heavy user. So if it is compatible with some application like Firefox, VLC, Gimp, Open Office and game like Warcraft 3 and Frozen Throne is good enough for me. Anyway thank to all who reply. I may have a go at it.

Re: ReactOS

Bazza — Fri Feb 18, 2011 8:21 pm

Author: Bazza

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 8:21 pm

Hi Mike...

> And it the forum is full of "ZOMG I know Visual Basic so I'm gonna
> add 34 new features to ReactOS" kids who waste everyone's time.

Ooooh, you are a cynic... ;o)

I can write in ARexx so I`m gonna add 651.7 new features for MikeOS. ;oD

@ pastychomper

Nuke — Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:55 pm

Author: Nuke

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:55 pm

Pastychomper, new keyboard please

Re: ReactOS

pastychomper — Wed Feb 16, 2011 1:51 pm

Author: pastychomper

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 1:51 pm

Quote:

...only a few Windows applications run without problems...

Quote:

astronomical units away from being "finished"... quite a lot of tweaked open source stuff works pretty well

Are you talking about ReactOS or Windows?

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Re: ReactOS

M-Saunders — Wed Feb 16, 2011 10:19 am

Author: M-Saunders

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 10:19 am

I've been playing around with it every six months for the last five years or so. It's pretty cool, but astronomical units away from being "finished". Understandably, quite a lot of tweaked open source stuff works pretty well, and I can see it being a useful, familiar Windows-ish OS in another five years. But businesses aren't going to be flocking towards it any time soon.

They had a big hoo-hah a few years ago about disassembling binaries from Win2K, and then a long audit, which set things back considerably. And it the forum is full of "ZOMG I know Visual Basic so I'm gonna add 34 new features to ReactOS" kids who waste everyone's time.

Still, good luck to them!

M

Re: ReactOS

RedWillow — Wed Feb 16, 2011 8:47 am

Author: RedWillow

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 8:47 am

It would indeed be interesting to read of anyone's hands-on experience. But I see that the Wikipedia page on Reactos says "The kernel is incomplete, and only a few Windows applications run without problems."

Did you find the forum on the Reactos site:

http://www.reactos.org/forum/

That might be useful to follow.

Re: ReactOS

khakilang — Wed Feb 16, 2011 3:03 am

Author: khakilang

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 3:03 am

I been to their website. Actually I was looking for someone who had hands on and experience the ReactOS to share. Just want to find out how compatible it is with current application and games. Thanks!

Re: ReactOS

RedWillow — Tue Feb 15, 2011 9:41 am

Author: RedWillow

Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 9:41 am

Here you go.

But...

Reactos home page wrote:

Please bear in mind that ReactOS 0.3.12 is still in alpha stage, meaning it is not feature-complete and is not recommended for everyday use.

ReactOS

khakilang — Tue Feb 15, 2011 8:51 am

Author: khakilang

Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 8:51 am

Its compatible to Windows application. Is it stable? Does it work on most of the latest applications and game? Does it have any hardware issues like driver and firmware? Is it easily infected by virus like the original? Maybe it can give me another reason to ditch Windows. Thanks to anybody who reply?