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Surely you would want to support Wine and not ReactOS? The only advantage of ReactOS over WINE is that ReactOS has Windows 2003 compatible kernel. This means n
by theamk 10y ago
Surely you would want to support Wine and not ReactOS?
The only advantage of ReactOS over WINE is that ReactOS has Windows 2003 compatible kernel. This means native Windows drivers, and faster emulation of some features.
However, a few decades from now, there will be no devices left which have Windows 2003 drivers. And hopefully CPUs will become faster, so Wine overhead will be negligible. And I doubt all the new devices will have ReactOS drivers.
Rather than keep going on ReactOS, I would much more prefer people making wine better.
- tekni5 10y agoYou should look at the current state of Amiga, while emulation is possible there are only two Amiga like OSes (AmigaOS & MorphOS) and both are closed source/proprietary. What am I saying is that having an open source OS for Windows, is a huge deal if you are interested in hardware preservation for the future. Therefore in reply to the original post about the current endeavor being "sad" I would say that it is quite the opposite. Wine is very important as well, but it is a completely different piece of software in my opinion.
- rebolek 10y agoWhat about AROS?
- jacobush 10y agoIt even runs on original Amiga hardware as well as on emulators and on PCs.
- orionblastar 10y agoI agree AROS is very much like AmigaOS 3.x and runs on multiplatforms including old Amiga 68K systems. It even has a Kickstart replacement ROM that is legal to use in Amiga emulators. HaikuOS aims at BEOS compatibility and also works nicely. ReactOS I've donated to them so they could reach their 4.x milestone. If I was some rich billionare or a CEO I'd donate a million dollars to each alternative project.
- tekni5 10y agoInteresting, I only recently started watching a few YouTubers regarding Amiga stuff, wasn't even aware that AROS existed. Thanks for correcting me, looks like a pretty cool project will have to look more into it. Link for anyone else wondering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AROS_Research_Operating_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AROS_Research_Operating_System
- chris_wot 10y agoWINE cannot run most drivers.
- userulluipeste 10y agoWine by its nature can not run drivers at all. Wine is an emulation platform for running applications. Drivers reside on a lower level and are the OS kernel's job. That is roughly what ReactOS does (and Wine can't) - provides a NT compatible kernel for the Windows drivers.
- bryanlarsen 10y agoReactOS and Wine share a lot of code, so supporting one will also support the other.