Eventually a full rewrite was done for both OS 2 (IBM, now a dead OS) and NT 3 the precursor to all subsequent modern Windows systems. Early Windows (95, 98 ME) ran on top of CLI DOS. Windows is a different Operating System, derived initially from MS DOS which may have been a hijacked version of another DOS (I will leave Xerox PARC out of this, but it's also there and binds non-BSD POSIX and non-POSIX graphics shells including Windows, everybody stole from everybody else then wanted laws to prevent replication of similar theft). This would include Unix, Mac OS, Linux, Android, and others. The *nix's you refer to are POSIX systems. The initial post reads to me as if OP is asking, "Will ROS one day be considered an alternative to the major market share OSes?" Basically, will it grow and survive long enough to be taken seriously as an everyday desktop OS? Perhaps the thread subject should instead read, "ReactOS, a possible competitor to Linux?" I had bits of ME and XP grafted into my old Win98.īefore having a Win 7 box I used a Win 7 transplant in XP, and now I have another Win XP7 (looks very nice thanks).Usually named Windows, Linux, MacOS for PCĪ different way to think of this might be: NT (Windows/ROS) or *nix (Unix/Linux/MacOS/BSD). ![]() The OS, I always remove or replace what I don't like. I can no longer use the current Avira, and so have had to compromise by using occasional scans with "Herdprotect", though I am now testing the free Qihoo 360 because it can also use the Avira and Bitdefender engines, which make up for its own crappy engine.Īs long as I can use Winamp, MPC, Photogenics, Irfanview, GIMP, Audacity, Shareaza, Unreal, UT99, UT2004, UT4, with full hardware support, I am happy. Personally I am not so bothered about the OS, as long as the tools I need work, and many that I need no longer function or install on XP. UT would most likely run in software rendering mode. What you currently find is patchy GFX and motherboard chipset support, though many combinations have yet to be reported. I patched my previous XP install so I know it is possible, but with mixed results. If the ReactOS devs can make it use the newer DirectXs, that would be its "killer app". I have to use a few tricks with MediaPlayerClassic so I can watch twitch streams or even youtube. No web plugins use DX9, and more and more sites provide a stuttering slideshow, even at the low resolutions. My XP does not make best use of the graphics card it has. Hardware moves on, and so have the requirements to decode/encode. ![]() The further we get away from 2001, the more it does indeed become a hobbyist OS. I stopped following it for a few years until it became usable. ReactOS has been around for a long time and developed very slowly. I used such tools in 1991 and I had no problems with them I don't understand where the "trolling a bit" is. Any yes (stuff from your picture) such simple things won't get broken soon compared with an "advanced tool" which is dead without bateries or electricity. Each thing is young and finally growing and becoming mature then let's see a picture of a company's wreck. Soon time will come for a ReactOS as replacement for crap found awesome (by m$ affiliated). even SumatraPDF as replacement for a crappy loaded stupid and never bug-free 4dob3.Īs you can see, here on planet Earth people intend to get rid of stuff dictated by some Giants which earn only money for what they do and finally diging their own grave with such habits. ![]() OpenOffice - good for small docs as replacement for you-know-what Mozilla FF and the rest - used by a lot of dudes as replacement for explorer VirtualBox (Virtual Machine) Download - Settings ReactOS USB support is rudimentary at this time and not available for many USB implementations. Prefer motherboards that have PS/2 connectors for the mouse and keyboard. My testing PC has an Intel Ethernet chip and it does not play well with ReactOS at this time. Prefer motherboards that use a Realtek RTL8139C Ethernet chip, ReactOS already has a driver for that. Seek out motherboards with widely used chipsets. Those who experiment with server hardware should substitute "Microsoft Windows Server 2003" for "Microsoft Windows XP" or "XP". Many motherboards sold to the white-box trade and build-it-yourself hobbyists still make XP type drivers available but there are some makers and motherboard models that never had XP support. Be sure newer hardware has drivers that support XP for all its devices. Those systems and their motherboards should have hardware drivers that support XP. Systems that were originally designed in the Microsoft Windows XP era to support Microsoft Windows XP work well with ReactOS in its current alpha level of development.
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