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From the WinBeta subforum of reboot.pro:
I'm Pierre Schweitzer, one of the ReactOS developers. This is a free operating system that aims to re-implement Windows, but this time with an open source license.
ReactOS now supports reading files from NTFS volume. This was a long awaited feature people were asking for. And here it is.
You can see what I'm talking about on the three pictures [included in the fine article].
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(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday November 07 2014, @04:18PM
kill of most if not all the Windows piracy in the west
Because Unbreakable Security, sure. Let me know how that goes.
its EXACTLY WHAT THE USERS WANTED Windows 8 to be, its Windows 7 with the OPTION of using the Metro UI if you have a convertible or just like the Metro look.
Technically I think the users didn't really want Metro on the desktop at all, but okay; at least that would be an improvement.
i have it running right now on a circa 2009 AMD netbook (figuring if it'll run good there it'll run good anywhere) and even though every single driver is in compatibility mode its STILL faster and more responsive...ohh and I even have full hardware acceleration both in and out the browser, try THAT with 5 year old Linux drivers and see how far you get!
Blah blah blah Linux sucks rah rah Microsoft
and as far as compatibility goes? I have yet to find anything that won't run.
Oh, so they added the ability to run 16-bit executables under 64-bit back in?* Because last I heard, WinNext was going to be 64-only and 8 doesn't support 16 (as in, even have a compatibility mode for it). And before you ask, I do have an example: Civilization II. And yes, I still play it (most of the good games came out 1990-2000 anyway).
Even if Windows 10 didn't exist that don't change the fact its been NINETEEN YEARS and they STILL haven't shipped something that is actually useful for anything.
Yeah, I may like the idea of the project but I don't realistically expect that they'll actually deliver the product. At this point it would be like Duke Nukem Forever or HURD getting published...hmm.**
Like I said even Haiku has an OS that you can install on actual hardware and do actual tasks on, this thing has less functionality and is more buggy than that Silverlight OS in a browser demo that's floating around the web because at least that is able to surf websites and play card games and the like without crashing!
I thought they've had a physical installation disc for awhile now? And it can run Firefox 1.5 at least. How's that for damning with faint praise eh.
It was a nice idea but mark my words it'll just limp along for several more years until it ends up another abandoned project in some source repo somewhere, they are just too far behind with too few resources trying to hit an ever faster moving target.
Well, they've been working on it this long...programmers can be tenacious sometimes. I'm not sure what to predict.
*I'll admit that this is a bit ridiculous use case, but your statement was ridiculous to begin with, so hey. And Microsoft kind of bases their entire OS on the premise.
**Admittedly many years late, of crap-to-middling quality, and irrelevant by then.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Friday November 07 2014, @05:23PM
Uhhh...riddle me this WHY WOULD YOU STEAL SOMETHING THAT IS FREE? Seriously DaFuq? You are just trolling and looking for a reason to argue, good day.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday November 07 2014, @05:39PM
Speaking of DaFuq...what??
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Saturday November 08 2014, @10:19PM
Oh, you're saying if Microsoft makes Windows free, people can't steal it anymore?* Technically true I suppose...like I said, I'll believe "free Windows" when I see it. Maybe Microsoft could make their money off of the platform lock-in via their Office yearly subscriptions (barf) and other software. You'll have to excuse me if I don't anticipate radical about-faces from companies who've been following more or less the same business model for the last 30 years.
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I was musing on the perspectives of success in the shower this morning...I suspect that many SD/SN FLOSSy-type posters would call "success" in the software world technically impressive products (a clever idea, or implemented in a particularly exciting way). The original hacker mentality (if you read any of that Stallman biography I linked you a little while ago) was all about eager programmers getting their hands on interesting-looking code and then tinkering around with it.
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In contrast, the measure of "success" for a probably much larger portion of the world is: How well does it sell? If you look at computing history, many of the best-selling products were NOT the best choice technically speaking. x86 was cheaper, so it won. DOS wasn't entangled in lawsuits like BSD (although maybe it should have been), and cheap at the time (cf. commercial Unix), so it won long enough to bootstrap Windows. Hell, Unix itself most people would probably say is better technically speaking than Linux, but Linux was free and available.
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So the hacker definition of "success" is directly at odds with the ~mainstream one, which is why there's so much frothing at the mouth, I think, in these arguments. And I, at least, get rather annoyed when people like you imply that Windows is the only "right" viewpoint and anyone who disagrees with you is a fool. I'll agree that Windows has its place; I will not, however, agree that it fills all places.
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*There's the observation that "stealing" software is a bit of a misleading term to begin with, since you're not depriving the original owner of anything, but I don't expect that argument to have any impact on you other than making you angrier.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"