In the past, I've installed ReactOS to show my students a Microsoft alternative. The performance was slow and there was not much to do. This latest revision offers more! For my review, I used the freeware VMWare Player since I was using the company server. I'm the only one who knows how to use it.
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Yes, ReactOS is far from it's final release, as openly explained on their website “Please bear in mind that ReactOS 0.3.0 is still in alpha stage and is not recommended for everyday use.”. I have personally been able to install and run a few Windows programs, but most fail to install or run poorly at this point, but at least they are going in the right direction. I've been following ReactOS for quite some time now and I'm often surprised at how much better it is becoming. They have been slowed down by a recent code audit, which is close to completion. As soon as they get that out of the way I'm sure the releases and improvements will accelerate. Feel free to donate your time and/or money to the project.
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2006-01-26
ReactOS 0.3.0 Videos & Screenshots
* graphical user interface
* command line
* samba-tng (files and printing over network)
http://www.reactos.org/?page=media
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Hi:
I do not know how the people find everything bad in everything and do a lot of critics instead of see the good side of anything!
This is a very good work; there is a lot left to do, but there are hands that are working to bring this amazing thing for the people...
Excellent work!
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I was about to say the same thing-- The mouse is probably jumpy because the VMWare Additions aren't installed. For me this happens with a lot of operating systems. Admittedly I haven't tried ReactOS but I'm confident that this is the case.
However I don't know if they actually work on ReactOS-- They are just standard drivers after all and I'm not sure if they're supported yet (?)
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2006-07-16
Forget it. There are some reasons, why they will not work.
1. Without the almost ready (and tested by me) Cache Manager, Setup BSODs quite soon.
2. I'm not sure if the drivers will run yet. Driver support will increase like hell in 0.3.1 and Cache Manager will come in 0.3.1 or 0.3.2
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more like KDE than Windoze,but if will eventually run Windoze software I'm all for it,my main concern it will they make it so it will run Windoze games and media&graphics apps,Open Office or even GoBe Productive are plenty good enough for most home users(Big Biz buys MS anyways so why cater to them),,the common people that would benefit from this want to edit pictures, watch and record movies,let their kids play games readily available on CD,convert MP3 and load their players,scan photos,print greeeting cards,surf the net,etc.Thats what average folks do with PC's,not a bunch of office work)Trust me,down on the street level this is what a PC has become,An entertainment center/communication/education device,and I forsee (when the price of large plasma displays come down)the PC taking the place of the television and stereo in the living rooms of America,I have already built boxes to to this effect with TV cards and output into stereo amps but the bottleneck is finding a cheap hi-rez screen large enough to make it worthwhile,but i ramble on ...LOL
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> Windows compatibility, and the opensource world can
> improve things that Microsoft so far has not been able
> or willing to fix due to so-called 'compatibility
> concerns'.
If it was really about compatibility (which sounds reasonable to me), then ReactOS might get stuck at the same points because one of their goals *is* to be compatible with Windows.
But then, with many eyes looking at the problem, one may find a good solution.
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