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For those not following this project it is a FOSS reimplementation of the Win32 interface, which supports a great deal of humanity's historical computational effort. The new ReactOS release has reached 0.42 and the filesystems ext, btrfs are apparently RW, though Reiserfs and UFS are readonly mounts, successful systems have been shown running.
A nice gallery of some successfully run high profile applications is here (e.g. SimCity and PhotoshopCS2 !!), although interesting, not why I am reporting this.
There are an *enormous* number of scientific instruments (not just microscopes, but various scanners, PCR decks , robots) which originally came with a Win32 driver disk, and have since gone out of business or stopped support. There might only be a single run instance on a crusty old i386 (yes, I've seen that!!).
This is an ambitious project and of course depends on the effective WINE project. It deserves some specific credit and visibility, for providing a possible threshold in the future that sufficient OLD applications can be run independent of the new Microsoft "One OS to rule them All", that it may be possible to construct hybrid machines running Linux, and sufficient driver support from ReactOS to manage the old device drivers that WINE may find difficult to reverse engineer.
But in general, more OS choice's are a good thing!
(Score: -1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @12:26AM
You are an idiot and probably a Drumpf-supporting Republican.
There' s no need to waste energy just because you have a hard-on for old hard-ware. People like you are the reason that nations consume too much electricity over bullshit reasons. The fucking ice caps are melting and right-wing types like you would rather let the brown people of the world drown than distribute power evenly among all people regardless of skin color. Nobody needs a 600W power supply just to sit around and watch Youtube videos. While you sit in your throne of smug whiteness, wasting precious electricity, there are blacks and immigrants RIGHT IN YOUR OWN TOWN that are starving.
It's vile, borderline racist, wasteful, and an absolutely disgusting hobby to keep your old equipment around. Your capacitors are probably leaking and your solder is lead poison. But you would rather sit in your smug position and brag, "I haven't upgraded my hardware in years" because it makes you a god in your circlejerk of white only friends. Get a fucking grip you over-sensitive racist motherfucker.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Monday August 29 2016, @11:32AM
I'd vote for tump if he built a wall around your house. But after reading your post I'm sure you already reside in a walled institution.
What a crappy libtroll. I'd say your almost as bad as that Milo twat on the alt-fart side.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @02:40PM
The Efficiency Optimization Center thanks you for your concern about wastefulness. We have determined that your flesh is not being used to its maximum efficiency.
Please report to your nearest Efficiency Optimization Station where your flesh will be reclaimed and efficiently recycled as fertilizer in a Chinese iPhone toxic waste dump.
Thank you for supporting a greener way of life where you are dead.