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ReactOS 0.2.3 Released 22

cuppm writes "ReactOS has just released version 0.2.3 of their free WinNT/2k clone! 'New LiveCD image, improved and more stable kernel and win32k kernel graphics subsystem, lots of networking foundation work, improved setup and better bundled explorer, command shell and drivers. Also included is newly ported user DLL code from WINE.' Download it here. It works pretty well in VMware and is progressing quickly."
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ReactOS 0.2.3 Released

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  • Great (Score:3, Insightful)

    by anonymous cowherd (m ( 783253 ) on Tuesday June 29, 2004 @06:38PM (#9565634) Homepage
    If this gets to the point where it can run a lot of popular Windows applications flawlessly, Microsoft will have to introduce some more undocumented system calls and other incompatibilities to make life difficult. My memory is a little fuzzy on this, but I seem to recall them doing this when updating DOS versions. Mysteriously, certain competitor's apps stopped working...

    Either that, or MS will switch from being an OS vendor to a support vendor.

    Yeah right, and monkeys will fly out my butt.

  • Looks cool, but hung on the live cd on my nforce2 board, amd 2600 off the board's internal IDE drives. Stopped at the PCI scanning stage.

    Screenshots look cool, but guess my hardware isn't supported.
    • ya i tried booting the livecd but it bluescreened immediatlly while trying to apparently divide something by zero.

      At least it's an accurate clone ;-) I do wish it well (I also wish it worked on my machine).
  • I should run ReactOS in Bochs, so I can still have things like memory protection and resource management even when I'm forced to use Windows 98. Coz it's one OS that doesn't wanna operate *this* system.
  • Interesting (Score:3, Informative)

    by winchester ( 265873 ) on Wednesday June 30, 2004 @04:15AM (#9568967)
    It would be interesting to use the ReactOS kernel sources, hook some decent file systems to the kernel and create a good, fully implemented posix subsystem.

    This way we would have a system capable of running Windows applications _and_ Linux applications.... which would be very nice.
    • Re:Interesting (Score:2, Insightful)

      by turgid ( 580780 )
      This way we would have a system capable of running Windows applications _and_ Linux applications.... which would be very nice.

      Isn't that what WINE [winehq.com] is for?

      • only if you assume that driver support in linux will be on par with windows (personally i do not think that is too far off), since reactos is meant to be able to be compatible with windows driver binaries.

        the drawback of that certainly is that you get the source of most os instabilitiy in current windows incarnations when loading those drivers... just think brooktree-based tv *shudders*
        • only if you assume that driver support in linux will be on par with windows (personally i do not think that is too far off), since reactos is meant to be able to be compatible with windows driver binaries.

          Actually, for me, linux has better hardware support than windows. I just bought a Dimension 8300 and installed both w2k server and red hat on it. Everything except the soft modem worked on redhat. On 2k, the nic, the sound card, and the firewire card didn't work.
          • try that with a linux build put into a sealed box in early 2k ;)

            (really no flame intended, it is a very very good thing that linux is coming closer and closer to supporting everything from the first day on)
  • now come on. trying to run a box which can run both unix and windows programs may seem some utopian idea but in the end windows will scream like a baby for "patent violations bla bla bla". Because they DON'T want to lose their well paying mass which is induced into total hypnosis by giving more eyecandy than usability. Linux is, on the other hand and I am sure it was said xth time in slashdot, full edge: fast, sleek, and you have a right to learn, choose, apply and teach. In windows based communities all of

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