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Watch: Mac OS X 10.4 Running in Windows Alternative ReactOS via PearPC Emulator

posted by martyb on Thursday May 10 2018, @08:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the matryoshka-dolls dept.

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The ReactOS project recently showcased on YouTube [that it's] possible to virtualize the Mac OS X 10.4 operating system on their free and open-source Windows alternative operating system.

Our "Watch" series of articles continues today with a very interesting one where you can see Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger running inside the ReactOS computer operating system, which we believe has come a long way, and it's beginning to look like a viable alternative to Microsoft's Windows 7 or Vista operating systems, perfect for desktop computers and laptops.

The latest release, ReactOS 0.4.8, showed us last month that it's now possible to use Windows 10, Windows 8, and Windows Vista software on the free and open-source operating system that's binary compatible with computer programs and device drivers made for Windows.

It also introduced initial support for reading data from NTFS formatted drives, a new app similar to the DrWatson32 software for Windows, some user-visible changes like support for balloon notifications in the system tray area, and support for unmounting network drives directly from the file explorer.

The video is available on YouTube

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 11 2018, @02:04AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 11 2018, @02:04AM (#678241)

    Good luck. MS will crush this if it ever gains traction. MS will make sure newest programs use Win 10 telemetry APIs and must be bought from the app store. Sure you can run old programs on ReactOS but you probably won't be able to run tomorrow's shiny ones.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 11 2018, @04:08AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 11 2018, @04:08AM (#678260)

    Technical and engineering users often write their own in-house software, and don't normally care about the latest shiny thing.

  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday May 11 2018, @02:37PM (1 child)

    by tangomargarine (667) on Friday May 11 2018, @02:37PM (#678391)

    Or just pay off some people in order to sue ReactOS out of existence if it ever gets close to usable, regardless of the fact it's a clean-room implementation.

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    • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday May 11 2018, @05:19PM

      by Freeman (732) on Friday May 11 2018, @05:19PM (#678490) Journal

      I do have similar concerns, but the one thing they have going for them is that they're not in the US. Otherwise, I'm sure they would have already been sued and the project would have died years ago.

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