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ReactOS is a free and open source implementation of the Windows NT architecture, which intends to provide support for existing applications and drivers, outside of the control of Microsoft.
The release of ReactOS 0.4 brings improved file system support, including native, out-of-the-box support for ext2, ext3, and ext4, as well as read-only support for NTFS.
Additionally, the bundled version of UniATA was updated to add better support for SATA and PATA devices. Support was generally improved for third-party device drivers, making it substantially easier to install and use real hardware, as opposed to just virtual machines like VirtualBox.
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Release of ReactOS 0.4 Brings Open Source Windows Closer to Reality
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(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 17 2016, @08:14PM
If you want to use windoze, use windoze.
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 17 2016, @08:26PM
the worst part is them re-writing the 15 year old version of Windows....[NT 4]
...and it still uses WINE to do anything.
I don't get it either.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 17 2016, @08:51PM
You don't have much of a clue about operating systems, do you?
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 17 2016, @08:30PM
No thanks. Win doze is a slur against DOS-based Windows. There hasn't been a version of Windows this century that has needed DOS. Your insult has passed end-of-life. Upgrade to NT, please.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 17 2016, @08:41PM
what a 20 year old snarky joke does not seem funny anymore? the hell you say!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 17 2016, @10:18PM
:) I, amongst countless others, didn't realize 'doze' was for DOS-based versions... maybe it is time to update the slur then to Win-spy.
For your new computer, would you like to run FruitLock, WinSpy or Penguin?
Penguin please.
Ok, but do watch out for icebergs.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 17 2016, @11:48PM
I assume you mean systemd.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2016, @08:19AM
I assume you mean systemd.
Yes. I propose the operating system formerly called by pedants, GNU/Linux, be re-branded as, Systemd/Linux with GNU.
(Score: 2) by Sir Finkus on Wednesday February 17 2016, @11:52PM
I can still use Micro$oft though right? What about Winblows?
Join our Folding@Home team! [stanford.edu]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2016, @12:53AM
I've never heard that interpretation before. I always assumed that the implication was that Windows could be so slow that a user could doze off while waiting for the hourglass (or its successor, the spinner) to go away.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_wait_cursor [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2016, @08:39AM
I think you are confusing Windoze with WinDOS. WinDOS was the term used for the old DOS-based Windows versions.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by tangomargarine on Wednesday February 17 2016, @08:44PM
Because not even Windows supports parts of its own back library anymore. I have several 2000-ish programs that worked fine up through Windows 7, but since 8 won't even run in compatibility mode.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 17 2016, @10:15PM
The TechRepublic article mentions Win32 multiple times.
There's this recent item as well WRT 16-bit APIs:
Wine Staging 1.9.3 Adds Compatibility Fixes for a Bunch of Older Windows Games [softpedia.com]
As the WINE and ReactOS projects have considerable cross-pollination WRT source code, if that stuff hasn't made it into ReactOS yet ("Staging" == beta), it should soon.
I mentioned the antiX crew the other day and how much they get done despite the small number of people involved.
The ReactOS crew is another small bunch that is impressive.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday February 17 2016, @10:51PM
How about VB5/6 programs to control industrial lasers via serial that wont work on > Win7. Gimme an opensource alternative that is 2000/XP compatible, runs on modern hardware, perhaps more secure, supports some new features and I'm sold. My shop is still running DOS, Win 2k and XP to keep the machines humming. Upgrading is ether technically or financially infeasible. It is easier and cheaper to keep a stock of old hardware that works.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2016, @07:54AM
Try it? Get virtual box and put it on a new computer and test it out. I don't think anyone here can say if it works or not, unless someone knows for sure it will not run VB5/6 programs.