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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: 1, Disagree) by Z-A,z-a,01234 on Thursday October 22 2015, @06:58AM

    by Z-A,z-a,01234 (5873) on Thursday October 22 2015, @06:58AM (#253112)

    *nixes are a sort of embedded applications. You install them and they work. You are not able however to install random applications, delivered in binary form, that have the same flexibility as on Windows.
    Windows itself is a collection of stable and, for the most part, well designed APIs. The kernel itself is an API. This is how you get extensibility and flexibility at runtime.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 22 2015, @11:21PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 22 2015, @11:21PM (#253437)

    If you mean to imply that ReactOS is Unix, no, it isn't. Its goal is to imitate the Windows NT architecture.

    https://reactos.org/about-reactos [reactos.org]