No.540792
What do you autists think of React OS?
No.540794
Waste of time. Like your thread.
No.540820
>What do you autists think
>>>/b/
No.540887
>>540792
garbage
like this thread
No.541561
an poorly executed solution to an non-existing problem
No.541582
It's a really interesting idea, but it's fell short every time I've tested it. The devs are making decent progress though, so I'm hopeful that it will be good enough to use as a daily driver in a few years.
No.541583
>>541582
Not in the next 20 years
No.541615
Waiting for an OSS windows is more productive than this project.
No.541617
>>540792
>What do you autists think of React OS?
Hobby project. Fun. Useful? Nope.
No.542882
I didn't look into it too much. It's been in development for a very long time and is really lagging behind what it seeks to imitate. However I do see it great for video games one day.
This is with the mindset that gaming on Linux isn't going to be a smooth transition if it even happens at all. Just a lot of games do not have long term support and will simply not be ported to Linux.
No.542888
No.542974
>>542882
>However I do see it great for video games one day.
ReactOS uses wine to implement most of it's advanced Windows features. Anything you can do on ReactOS you can do on Linux with wine, and Linux does it better, because Linux has some hardware support while ReactOS has nearly none.
No.543090
>>542974
>ReactOS uses wine to implement most of it's advanced Windows features.
source? I thought it gained compatibility because it copied the design of windows.
No.543165
>>543090
It doesn't use wine but the wine project and reactos do share packages and help eachother out
No.543227
>>543090
>>543165
They share a lot of code, e.g. d9d implementation
https://github.com/mirror/reactos/blob/master/reactos/media/doc/README.WINE
The job ReactOS was supposed to be good at is running low-level Windows stuff, namely drivers, but ReactOS became bootable on real hardware only recently because they spend time re-implementing notepad.exe and explorer.exe. It's a vaporware.
No.543338
Wouldn't it be hilarious if on the day ReactOS releases they're best effort, Microsoft releases the Windows 95 or 98 source code?
I can imagine being a ReactOS developer and killing my family.
No.543344
Couldn't dd it to a usb like other distros so I left it alone. Why is it that some distros will not boot from usb?
No.543349
I've been using Void for close to a year and it is feeling stale? How do you /tech/ies overcome this? Do you switch distros? LXDE is pretty appealing to me at the moment even though I'm using Cublinux at the moment (live).
No.543550
>>543227
>only recently because they spend time re-implementing notepad.exe
Oh you've got to be kidding me. Is that actually necessary for anything? I imagine people just install some other text editor regardless.
No.544120
>ReactOS 0.4.0 Released
>ext2 read/write and NTFS read support
>NTFS read support
>NTFS
>read
>support
No.544191
>>543338
It wouldn't mean shit because Windows 95/98 both use the Windows 9x DOS based kernel while ReactOS is targeting compatibility with the modern Windows NT kernel
The only Windows NT programs that work in Windows 9x are programs that use only rudimentary Win32 api calls, likewise, no Win16 APIs exist in modern Windows and modern Windows will not run 16-bit 9x programs
Figured I'd tell you since you probably weren't even alive yet when Windows 95/98 came out underage dumbass
No.544205
>>544120
>NTFS read support
I'm as confused as you, don't worry.
No.544314
>>544120
NTFS is hard. OS X currently only has read support, too.
No.544318
Going to test it real quick to see if it can run stuff WINE can't
No.544324
>>544318
>>544318
never mind couldn't get it to start in a liveUSB,
something something probe failed
No.544327
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No.544340
>>544327
Holy shit, wtf is it with these people?
Are the developers just shills from Microsoft attempting to stifle any open source clones?
No.544371
HOW THE FUCK DO I MAKE A WORKING REACTOS LIVE USB!!!!
DISKS UTILITY DOESN'T WORK, GPARTED DOESN'T WORK, LIVE USB IMAGER WRITER DOESN'T WORK
No.544372
>>544371
Have you tried dd?
No.544380
>>544372
What is DD?
Does it work if my USB has two partitions?
The only thing that works for USB with two partitions are windows tool like Universal USB Installer and YUMI... I want something like that on Loonix so bad;
THE BIGGER PROBLEM at the moment is I can't even burn this ReactOS Live CD onto a full single partition FAT32 drive..
No.544388
>>544372
Last I checked (before latest stable release) dd didn't do shit, and you needed to run windows to burn that damned usb using rufus. Has it changed now or something?
No.544414
>>540792
The only thing useful that may come of this is the us of NT Drivers on another OS that isn't Windows.
Like >>543227 said though, it's vaporware.
>>543338
This would be useless, Wine already runs most things from the 95/98 era pretty well.
No.544437
>>543338
>Microsoft will never EVER release Windows XP under the GPL
Feels bad man.
No.544441
>>544380
>What is DD?
Ladies and gentlemen, this is the average user that wants to install ReactOS.
No.544689
I just tried to use it to run some PLC programming software. I used the qemu image. It had a few graphical glitches at the desktop, but I got the software installed.
It then bitched about mfc42u.dll, which I copied into system32. The app then started but froze at the splash screen.
I then tried the app in wine (I custom compiled the latest release), and it had the exact same behavior (froze at splash screen).
So no good for me, but pretty amazing. If people would pile into developing for it, it could be incredible. It has got to be pretty close to being self-hosting.
No.544699
>>543227
>spend time re-implementing notepad.exe and explorer.exe. It's a vaporware.
You know that's funny. I was dinking around the reactos desktop. Installed some stuff. Saw a readme.txt and double clicked on it.
and notepad.exe fucking opened it.
That's exactly the behavior I would expect. All my interactions were very windows 2000 like.
I am not a reactos or windows developer, but I suspect they had to implement notepad in order to make the user experience work.
No.544837
>>544699
Having priorities right is important. There is no user experience if system doesn't boot.
No.544856
>>544837
It boots, but the hardware support is minimal right now.
No.544880
>>544388
You can dd on Windows with Win32DiskImager m8
No.544898
>>544837
Why are you assuming the notepad guys are competent low-level devs?
No.544928
>>544437
D.. D.. Don't say such things anon-kun...
I want to believe ;_;
No.547786
It's made more progress in less time than Hurd.
No.547811
>>547786
That's not impressive. The problem HURD was created to solve was solved by another project over twenty years ago.
No.548982
Bump. What would I have to learn to contribute to this project?