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ReactOS is a cool idea. Use WINE to create a Windows compatible FOSS Operating System. They aim for XP/2003 compatibility so it doesn't run a lot of newer stuff

ReactOS is a cool idea. Use WINE to create a Windows compatible FOSS Operating System. They aim for XP/2003 compatibility so it doesn't run a lot of newer stuff. But it is good for legacy Windows apps. With the 0.4.0 release they added more driver support, Wifi support, Audio support, etc. They need more people to work on it, and I hope that Google funds them some money as well to pay people. So far it is in the alpha stage and needs to go to beta stage soon. It only has a 48M overhead and loads faster than the real Windows. It has EXT file system support as well as FAT support but NTFS is read only. Someone can make a ReactOS bundle with PHP, MySQL, Apache2 so it can be used as a web server. If someone ports CLRNET or the Dotnet open source programs over to it, it can run ASP.Net stuff as well.

ossreality 11y ago
Yeah, I can run new dotnet projects on Linux now. Good luck with ReactOS.
pizza234 11y ago
You're severely underestimating the massive amount of resources needed to accomplish such target, especially when compared to what the target it. There isn't much point in throwing a massive amount of resources for building an AMP hosting environment. If somebody needs to start an AMP server from scratch and he really needs to save money, there is LAMP. The only realistic use case of ReactOS is large-scale deployments of machines which need Windows (driver) compatibility, in which case ReactOS would save large amounts of money.