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Ask Soylent: Can We Turn ReactOS into a Viable Alternative to Windows 10?

posted by n1 on Wednesday October 21 2015, @09:08PM   Printer-friendly
from the we-put-a-man-on-the-moon,-but-we-wont-do-that dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Microsoft's telemetry features in Windows 10 are a privacy advocate's nightmare. Now that Microsoft is trying to back port these "features" into existing versions of Windows, it seems like many of us have no future upgrade path. Sure there is Linux, but I have some older Windows software that I still want to use. ReactOS is still out there, but does not look like there have been any updates in a while.

Does the Soylent community believe it is possible to get this project going full steam to producing a useable alternative for existing Windows users?

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by tibman on Wednesday October 21 2015, @09:50PM

    by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 21 2015, @09:50PM (#252937)

    does not look like there have been any updates in a while

    I see code commits that happened only a few hours ago. The group meetings look like they happen quarterly with the last one in September. They look like they are doing okay : )

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by mmcmonster on Wednesday October 21 2015, @10:15PM

    by mmcmonster (401) on Wednesday October 21 2015, @10:15PM (#252949)

    I think the issue is that 0.4 hasn't been released. The reason it's a concern is that 0.4 was supposed to be a usable OS that you could install as a primary OS and not in a Virtual Machine.

    And we've been on the 0.3.x branch for several years now.

    I think the author is quite reasonable in thinking that active development has stalled.

    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 21 2015, @11:42PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 21 2015, @11:42PM (#252987)

      I wouldn't be surprised if some low level flunky thought an "ask soylent" would be a good way to drum up more attention to get it over whatever block is in place to a 0.4 release.

    • (Score: 2) by tibman on Thursday October 22 2015, @01:42AM

      by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Thursday October 22 2015, @01:42AM (#253033)

      Thanks for the info! That does clear it up a lot.

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