ReactOS 0.1.0 Released

JasonFilby writes "ReactOS 0.1.0 has been released! ReactOS is an Open Source effort to develop a quality operating system that is compatible with Windows NT applications and drivers. In this release, among other new features and fixes, especially worth mentioning are the ability to boot from CD and self-hosting capabilities (ReactOS can be compiled on ReactOS)." ReactOS has been in progress for a while, often tied to other projects with the aim of seamlessly replacing Windows: you can download an image of Bochs 2.0 with ReactOS 0.1.0 preloaded from the download and changelog page.

Re:We have an embarrassment of riches here

[Subcarrier]

How many Operating Systems do we actually need?

Three OS for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie.
One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them,
One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie.

Sheeesh..

[Anonymous Coward]

If you thought Mono was a legal minefield, this is has to be akin to strinking and flicking matches in dynamite wharehouse.

screenshots?

[Anonymous Coward]

Where are the screenshots?

Oh, that's why.

This isn't going to replace Windows anytime soon if it doesn't have a graphical interface of any sort.

Re:no gui

[Zemran]

Anyone that wants NT4 with a GUI front end could always try NT4 from Microsoft.

Re:You Monsters!

[eGabriel]

Yeah, because every news portal in the world has to repeat every small detail given by the same 5 sources. Not doing so is just callous and rude. I really need Slashdot to be my portal to CNN. CNN doesn't have Thinkgeek ads.

I guess it's just best to drop everything, and go back to bed. It's true that if Slashdot posted more information about the space tragedy and the war, both war and space tragedy would be averted in the future, and the world would be safe and happy again.

Stopping development of operating systems would help too; most space tragedies and wars are indeed caused by announcements of early point releases of free OS code.

Mod this parent up. It's some really deep stuff.

Whoa

[Amsterdam Vallon]

Microsoft Word XP, watch [reactos.com] your back!

Don't forget to visit *nix.org [starnix.org].

Re:We have an embarrassment of riches here

[skryche]

How many Operating Systems do we actually need?

IKIGTGMDFTB:

Just one good one.

(Still waiting...)

Re:Sheeesh..

[21mhz]

...in dynamite wharehouse.

It's properly spelled worehouse.

Re:screenshots?

[sheean.nl]

Oh, you can see the ads already:

ReactOS..

Windows, but without the pretty windows to click on.

Re:The OS world from the 'GO' perspective

[VoidEngineer]

Good analogy... especially with the x-y axis as a measurement of the relationship between linux and windows. Now, expand the game of Go into the third dimension, with 19 levels of 19x19 square GO boards. (19^3 instead of 19^2). Perhaps this new stone is being played in the opposite corner from linux and windows, which is currently mostly vacant, and the rest of the world will ignore it until it reaches version 1.0...

Orthogonality, folks... use it; love it...

Re: How can this possibly be useful?

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe I should send good ol' George W. a mail asking him to do something different because that would make much more sense for everybody else than what he's doing at the moment. But I'm sense for everybody else than what he's doing at the moment. But I'm afraid this won't work either. He just likes what he's doing ATM too much, I'd guess.

Also, that would be helping the terrorists.

Re:legal trouble ahead?

[mentin]

Don't worry. By the time ReactOS reaches version 1.0, those patents will expire. Remember, patent is valid for 20 years only.

Re:legal trouble ahead?

[hobuddy]

Don't worry. By the time ReactOS reaches version 1.0, those patents will expire. Remember, patent is valid for 20 years only.

Haha! We've already thought of this; here's our plan for accelerated development:

Implement the ReactOS kernel as a GNU Hurd daemon, with built-in 3d graphics support based on the Duke Nukem Forever engine (running on top of WINE's DirectX layer).

The built-in 3d engine will be used as the basis for an implementation of the Berlin windowing API, the suggested application interface to which is the Perl 6 virtual machine. We should have all of this up and running on the Indrema console within a mere three months!

Then, we plan to hire Loki games to implement an X-Windows compatibility layer, and we've arrived!

Re:The OS world from the 'GO' perspective

[PD]

I'm still trying to figure out 1 dimensional go.

No paint? No minesweeper?

[Dave_bsr]

...No paint, no minesweeper...
I guess that means no solitaire. Sorry guys, i've just lost all interest in your silly project - it can never be a *real* windows clone. Sorry...

: ) In all serious this looks like a lot of fun, and I wish you guys the best.

In other news...

[inteller]

...the invention of a round device capable of being mounted on a "carriage" was unvieled today. This new device promises to revolutionize the methods of transportation.

Re:legal trouble ahead?

[mcbridematt]

Ahh, you realise most of the stuff in your comment is either Vaporware or stuff in progress. Implement the ReactOS kernel as a GNU Hurd daemon, with built-in 3d graphics support based on the Duke Nukem Forever engine (running on top of WINE's DirectX layer). What version of the Duke Nukem Foreven engine (1st DOOM engine based, 2nd Quake 1 Alpha based or the 3rd ?? Based) Then, we plan to hire Loki games to implement an X-Windows compatibility layer, and we've arrived! You realise Loki games is in Chapter 7 liquidation.

holy mother of god :P

[linuxghoul]

i just downloaded the prebuilt "bochs+freedos+freebios+reactos" distibution from the website onto my rh8.0 box, unzipped it and found that its for windows. My first reflex after seeing the bochs.exe was to run it under wine...and it worked FLAWLESSLY. So there i was, running a free clone of windows NT on a pc emulator (which uses cygwin.dll to run under windows) running under a windows (non) emulator running under linux on an AMD cpu...

surreal, aye? i dunno if theres a point to this...just thot i'd let u guys in on the fun :P

ps: btw, if any one tries it, and runs winhello.exe from the bin directory, and figures out how to get back to the reactos prompt from there, please msg below...

Ghoul

Re:legal trouble ahead?

[Bluesman]

Slashdot needs a new kind of mod point:

+1 Unintentionally hilarious