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What exactly does ReactOS provide that Wine or some emulation environment on Linux can't?
by pipeline_peak 5y ago
What exactly does ReactOS provide that Wine or some emulation environment on Linux can't?
- zozbot234 5y ago> What exactly does ReactOS provide that Wine or some emulation environment on Linux can't? Support for NT kernel interfaces. This allows drivers written for Windows to work under ReactOS. Most of the userspace should work just fine on Wine and Linux.
- pipeline_peak 5y agoOkay, that makes a huge difference lol. I always felt like the project seemed pointless and unsuccessful, but a free os that can run existing NT drivers is exciting.
- tedunangst 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDISwrapper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDISwrapper
- ecef9-8c0f-4374 5y agoWindows driver support
- Koshkin 5y agoProblem is, Windows is, and seems to become more and more, with each version, something of a moving target - and so may be (are?) device drivers, which begs the question whether one can only use devices from ten years ago or such...