Reactions to ReactOS

[rico001]

Has anyone tried out an install of ReactOS? It might be good as a quick replacement for Windows 95 and playing games from the liveCD version.

I ran the Qemu version but it ran slow on my comp.
Page with link to installs:
http://www.linuxinfor.com/english/ReactOS-UserTutorial/bk01pt01ch05.html

wiki on it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS

It might be great to run in a virtual machine under vista.

 

[Quvack]

ReactOS is an amazing project, I've been following it for a few years now and it's been great to see it grow as it has.

However, anyone expecting it to be good as a quick replacement for a usable operating system is probably going to be dissapointed. It's still very much at an alpha stage of development, while you can do a few things with it (play some games, run various app's, surf the net, etc..) its not stable/optimised/compatible enough for someone to use for much more than testing.

With time I'm sure this will change and it'll have more 'real world' use, I look forward to the time when ReactOS is at the stage of general type usablity At the moment I'm enjoying watching/using as it grows.

 

[zilmar]

I think it is a great project, if I had more time I would be interesting in helping it out .. but I have more then enougth projects for now.

Hopefully they will end up with a strong compatible version to win 2k .. something light and free

 

[davidpoiu]

Cool, man! It's interesting the things than these people does!

Until some people has said than it has elements of Windows 95 (surely than Microsoft saids that, it's not a business for them)

On January 17, 2006 Hartmut Birr wrote a message on the ReactOS Developers mailing list (ros-dev) with the accusation that ReactOS contains code derived from disassembling Microsoft Windows

 

[Quvack]

Until some people has said than it has elements of Windows 95 (surely than Microsoft saids that, it's not a business for them)

That's why they are having a code audit atm To find any questionable code and fix it up if the need be.

 

[Toasty]

I've been following the project for a few months since I became aware of it and I'm really looking forward to more advancements, as I'm not much of a M$ fan, and Linux is still a little too intimidating to me. (Not to mention, playing Windows games on Linux is not always possible, despite some good efforts to write Windows compatibility layers for Linux.)

 

[SlimickGamer]

It's amazing how these guys are catching up in a few months that they're making something revolutionary and free so people can get it anywhere. These guys still need extra help though and needs more people. I would try to help by testing it and sending feedback but I'm too busy doing stuff.

 

[Zoomer]

Very cool, thanks for the link. Will be keeping an eye on this project.