A bit more on ReactOS

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Here is a bit from Slashdot.

An anonymous reader writes "NeoSmart Technologies has an incredibly
detailed (6 long pages!) and mostly positive review of ReactOS, The Open
Source Windows. The review covers the goals of ReactOS and how well it
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A M$ Window$ clone??

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An anonymous reader writes "NeoSmart Technologies has an incredibly
detailed (6 long pages!) and mostly positive review of ReactOS, The Open
Source Windows. The review covers the goals of ReactOS and how well it
meets them, system stability, application compatibility, kernel design and
development, and the networking stack. It discusses the use of WINE in
ReactOS' kernel and the effect on both its compatibility and development
times."
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Sounds as if "anonymous" may be one of the developers. :)
 
If anyone's interested, here's the direct link to the blog:

http://neosmart.net/blog/archives/220

Interesting read.
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You sort of get the feeling that the reviewer was less than
enthusiastic about being assigned this review at first. Then he
started digging and realized it was fairly well done, but incomplete.

I look forward to v1.0, but at the glacial development pace, a Windows
OS clone may no longer be a viable thing!

l8r
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Chris
 
You sort of get the feeling that the reviewer was less than
enthusiastic about being assigned this review at first. Then he
started digging and realized it was fairly well done, but incomplete.

I look forward to v1.0, but at the glacial development pace, a Windows
OS clone may no longer be a viable thing!

l8r
===========================================================================
Chris
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I remember seeing ReactOS when it was intended as a NT4 clone. Now intended
as a Win2K clone. With Vista now on a release schedule, who knows it could
get bumped again and probably will, will the ReactOS team have a complete
OS by the time that a Win2K clone is so obsolete that it's worthless? At
the pace things are currently moving, I see a distinct possibility that
Microsoft may be presenting a moving target that cannot be hit at the
current development pace. It would be so cool to have a Windows alternative
that MS has no involvement in. I suspect that if it gets complete the MS
lawyers will be called to action. I seriously believe if it becomes a
threat, MS will do what it can to squash it.
 
I remember seeing ReactOS when it was intended as a NT4 clone. Now intended
as a Win2K clone. With Vista now on a release schedule, who knows it could
get bumped again and probably will, will the ReactOS team have a complete
OS by the time that a Win2K clone is so obsolete that it's worthless? At
the pace things are currently moving, I see a distinct possibility that
Microsoft may be presenting a moving target that cannot be hit at the
current development pace. It would be so cool to have a Windows alternative
that MS has no involvement in. I suspect that if it gets complete the MS
lawyers will be called to action. I seriously believe if it becomes a
threat, MS will do what it can to squash it.
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I've been following it about that long as well. I've also wondered
when MS will decide to put the hammer down.

I sincerely hope that it comes to fruition, but I'm not sitting here
biting my nails waiting.
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Chris
 
Here is a bit from Slashdot.

An anonymous reader writes "NeoSmart Technologies has an incredibly
detailed (6 long pages!) and mostly positive review of ReactOS, The Open
Source Windows. The review covers the goals of ReactOS and how well it
meets them, system stability, application compatibility, kernel design and
development, and the networking stack. It discusses the use of WINE in
ReactOS' kernel and the effect on both its compatibility and development
times."


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