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MonkeyforaHead
17 Jun 2006, 06:37
http://www.reactos.org/xhtml/en/index.html

I'm way too tired to look further into this right now, but it intrigues me.

FutureWorm
17 Jun 2006, 06:39
http://www.reactos.org/xhtml/en/index.html

I'm way too tired to look further into this right now, but it intrigues me.
Well, that's weird.

AndrewTaylor
17 Jun 2006, 11:21
I hope it works. I suspect it'll become something that people dual-boot with Linux, or something small businesses use to save money, though. It would seem like a heck of a job to just try it out. I'll be very impressed if they manage to clone Windows, though.

SupSuper
17 Jun 2006, 16:13
Well the screenshots look promising. It looks like Windows and they already got a bunch of games and applications working on it.

http://www.reactos.org/support/index.php?page=db&view=&sec=rank&rank=&rank2=awards

If it becomes like Windows without the bloat, it might be worth getting.

worMatty
17 Jun 2006, 17:00
Deffo. I ran the Live CD version and had a play. It's like ME and has a few graphical and UI bugs, and no programs in the Start menu, but the programs are in the System32 directory. It doesn't seem to be able to read existing FAT32 or NTFS partitions so I couldn't test my own programs or drivers. I like this.

Squirminator2k
17 Jun 2006, 20:34
Ooh. Fasky Naten.

MadEwokHerd
18 Jun 2006, 02:38
Umm, last I checked networking wasn't implemented. I may want to look at this again.

Edit: That is definitely a picture of a web browser viewing web pages on the internet. Huh.

Edit2: Yep, last version I tried was 0.2.x, I'll be having another look at this.

Edit3: BTW, there's no way to run most windows programs without bloatware. They need a lot of stuff to function.

Edit4: Nope, still doesn't detect my mouse.