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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: 3, Informative) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday February 17 2016, @11:58PM

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Wednesday February 17 2016, @11:58PM (#306029) Journal

    Just took it for a spin. Still needs a lot of work so I donated 20€. Not much but why not? Its a lot of hard work they are doing for free. Anyways, I installed it in the latest Virtualbox on a Win 7 host. Set the OS to XP and keep the default settings for XP, maybe bump the RAM to 512+ and the video memory to 32M. In the old blue nightmare NT installer, make sure you select a higher VESA video setting. I used 1280x1024x32. Installed without a hitch and booted to desktop. The virtualbox guest additions Installed without a hitch. Then you have a delemma. You need a browser. Palemoon Atom/XP and opera installers were both corrupt. Not even going to try Firefox or Chrome. My next move was to try and install Cygwin which worked and downloaded all the packages but locked up the whole VM halfway through installing. Like I said, long, long way to go. But for someone like me who both wants and needs an XP replacement (industrial use), Ill keep my eye on it.

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  • (Score: 2) by mhajicek on Thursday February 18 2016, @05:47AM

    by mhajicek (51) on Thursday February 18 2016, @05:47AM (#306175)

    I need a Win7 replacement with robust OpenGL.

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