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This is fantastic. I think ReactOS is one of the most amazing projects ever. Windows NT has a pretty interesting design, which is absolutely worth preserving b
by andreiw 10y ago
This is fantastic.
I think ReactOS is one of the most amazing projects ever. Windows NT has a pretty interesting design, which is absolutely worth preserving both for historical purposes and as scaffolding for future OS work, and with this in mind, having an alternate and open source implementation does the humanity some real good.
It's too bad FreeVMS isn't actively being developed.
- Koshkin 10y agoUnfortunately, preserving the design does not seem to be - and cannot be - one of the goals of the project, since in order to stay relevant they need to follow the ongoing development of the original, which is a rapidly moving target. Even the internals of the original have been changing over time, albeit somewhat slower than the UI. The initial design of NT was very interesting indeed; if I remember correctly, it included a message-based mechanism of interaction between the base ("native") OS and "subsystems" (Win32, Posix, etc.)
- stuaxo 10y agoAlso a shame OSFree is not actively developed.