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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, Insightful) by jdavidb on Thursday October 22 2015, @02:26PM

    by jdavidb (5690) on Thursday October 22 2015, @02:26PM (#253238) Homepage Journal

    I just don't see a whole lot of people getting on the ReactOS bus of coding masochism

    I wonder if getting up to speed at that kind of masochism could lead to a career anywhere. I would think a programmer who can do that would be able to tackle just about any problem.

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday October 22 2015, @03:38PM

    by Freeman (732) on Thursday October 22 2015, @03:38PM (#253260) Journal

    They currently have someone helping out as part of their PhD. They have also in the past been part of the Google Summer of Code events. They apparently were accepted in 2006 https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2006/ [reactos.org] and 2011 https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2011/ [reactos.org]. I wouldn't be surprised, if working on something like ReactOS would increase your marketability.

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