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Release of ReactOS 0.4 Brings Open Source Windows Closer to Reality

posted by martyb on Wednesday February 17 2016, @07:09PM   Printer-friendly
from the making-progress dept.
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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  • (Score: 2) by Appalbarry on Wednesday February 17 2016, @11:40PM

    by Appalbarry (66) on Wednesday February 17 2016, @11:40PM (#306019) Journal

    For those couple of things that actually need "real" Windows to run I'm still using Vista inside Virtualbox.

    It just works, and if I change machines or do a major upgrade of Mint I just copy over the VB folder that contains it.

    Beyond that everything that I need (with one or two specific additions) comes out of the box with Mint.

    Things may have been different five or ten years ago, but somehow this really does feel like a solution in search of a problem.

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