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The ReactOS project recently showcased on YouTube [that it's] possible to virtualize the Mac OS X 10.4 operating system on their free and open-source Windows alternative operating system.
Our "Watch" series of articles continues today with a very interesting one where you can see Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger running inside the ReactOS computer operating system, which we believe has come a long way, and it's beginning to look like a viable alternative to Microsoft's Windows 7 or Vista operating systems, perfect for desktop computers and laptops.
The latest release, ReactOS 0.4.8, showed us last month that it's now possible to use Windows 10, Windows 8, and Windows Vista software on the free and open-source operating system that's binary compatible with computer programs and device drivers made for Windows.
It also introduced initial support for reading data from NTFS formatted drives, a new app similar to the DrWatson32 software for Windows, some user-visible changes like support for balloon notifications in the system tray area, and support for unmounting network drives directly from the file explorer.
The video is available on YouTube
(Score: 5, Informative) by Mykl on Friday May 11 2018, @12:09AM (2 children)
I would imagine that the project will need to spend considerable time to ensure compatibility with all of the various exploits that Windows offers. After all, a lot of effort went into developing them in the first place!
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 11 2018, @03:24AM
Yes. Much of the effort seems to go into reverse-engineering the weird workarounds Microsoft has baked into Windows for specific programs and use cases over the years.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday May 11 2018, @05:35PM
They could be baking in the same exploitable vulnerabilities or they could be coming up with compatible, but not exploitable implementations thereof. Ensuring compatibility with Windows applications doesn't mean they have to be creating the same vulnerabilities. The underlying code won't be a 1:1 match with MS code, so will almost assuredly have different bugs. In fact the ReactOS code will almost assuredly be wildly divergent from the MS code. They could have some of the same bugs due to trying to be 100% compatible by design, but they won't have all the same bugs since some/most of the bugs aren't design bugs.
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