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ReactOS 0.4.16
- thataccount 1mo agoThis reminds me of the feeling of when Linux got graphical installers instead of long text based ones asking you many, many questions.
- forinti 1mo agoIt's not only that it was text based, but that it failed in all sorts of ways. I had a particularly bad afternoon in early 2000s when I tried to install Linux on various machines (4 or 5, each one with different hardware) and failed with all of them. Of course, I wasn't as savvy as I am now, but it's been years since I've seen an issue with a Linux install; although I might have to download and compile a driver for one thing or another, the install itself doesn't fail.
- thataccount 1mo agoMine was in the 90s and concerned X11 failing or crashing due to the video card typically. Redhat 5.2ish or Suse.
- unlimit 1mo agoSame with me - late 90s. Celeron 366Mz, 64 MB RAM, 4.3 GB HDD. Don't remember the video card and the sound card. Used to stay up all night to try and fix X11. And once you got it running - victory !!!
- prmoustache 1mo agoBar bad floppies I don't remember ever having an installer issue. Unrecognized/unsupported hardware is another thing but I always could finish the install and at least reach the console login prompt. I've never used bleeding edge equipment though, euther second hand or brand new but proven tech.
- tiahura 1mo agoThis seems like the sort of project that ai would excel at. /goal excel runs flawlessly.
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- actionfromafar 1mo agoWell, Excel has AI now, so maybe it can help.
- aussieguy1234 1mo agoExcel writes Excel, which writes Excel... Now we have an infinite loop
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- TonyTrapp 1mo agoIt's also the kind of project where LLM license-washing is going to be the most dangerous for the project itself. Projects like Wine and ReactOS have to be extremely careful about what kind of code to accept, because taking code from one of the countless Windows source leaks is just a recipe for legal disaster.
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- mysterydip 1mo agoLooks like a lot of improvements on long-standing hard-to-find issues. Kudos to the team and thank you for providing an alternative OS that keeps getting better
- montroser 1mo agoQuite the dedication have these people!
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- Aldipower 1mo agoLove it! Haiku, ReactOS and sure Linux. But if necessary, the real art of computing can be kept up!
- MisterTea 1mo agoNow all we need is an alternative clean-room implementation of Mac OS.
- Lizard5260 1mo agoYou should take a look at ravynOS! https://ravynos.com/ https://ravynos.com/
- fithisux 1mo agoAnd an L4 version of Solaris or Plan 9 with servers for USB and Bluetooth.
- guitarlimeo 1mo agoTIL that the GUI of ReactOS isn't based on React. All these years spent baffled that who would like to build an OS with JS, thanks to me only reading the headlines lol
- kijashdkujdfhas 1mo agoWell ReactOS did have a 15 year lead on the name over React...1998 vs 2013, going by first public release of each.
- lucasoshiro 1mo agoReactOS is way older than React. In fact, the first times when I heard about React I thought ReactOS was becoming mainstream, but no... If you an OS based in JS, maybe the closer we had was NodeOS [1] [1] https://node-os.com https://node-os.com
- Koshkin 1mo agoOr maybe https://bellard.org/jslinux/ https://bellard.org/jslinux/
- giancarlostoro 1mo agoOne of my favorite projects, maybe someday it can be a true daily driver, I wonder if that's the goal for 1.0 is to claim that they've gotten it stable enough to run as though it were Windows 7 or something to that effect.
- MisterTea 1mo agoI do a lot of industrial automation and it is the one thing that keeps me boat-anchored to Windows. Every little programmable doodad like signal conditioners and temperature transmitters have their own USB programming cables and their own, mostly crappy windows config software. PLC software is another abomination, hopelessly Windows anchored, bloated GUI monsters, some built on top of Visual Studio (Beckhoff TwinCAT.) I have donated to ReactOS in the past in the hopes of one day freeing myself from this hell.
- Almondsetat 1mo agoWhy not spend some money on an uncensored LLM to reverse engineer or create an open clean room reimplementation?
- bluGill 1mo agoThat is only recently become an option you could try, and we don't know long term how well it will work. Remember laws may change (and there are some legal issues around LLMs that are not clear at all)
- wpm 1mo agoBecause that requires breaking the almost assured stipulation in a software license agreement that says "You will not try to RE this software", which is fine to ignore for home gamers, but not something you generally want to mess around with in a business setting where the risks are much higher.
- Almondsetat 1mo agoReverse engineering is protected under certain conditions, even if the EULA prohibits it
- jmcqk6 1mo agoThe thing about this type of thinking is that it often requires risking millions of dollars and a major distraction from your primary goal in order to find out if it's true or not.
- Koshkin 1mo ago> a new DC21X4 network adapter driver Hasn't the point been for the OS to be compatible with the existing Windows drivers?
- jeditobe 1mo agoYes, but native open-source drivers are needed for out-of-the-box support, legal compliance, and debugging missing kernel/NDIS APIs during development.
- Telaneo 1mo agoIt always brings me joy to see ReactOS going places.
- prvt 1mo agoAfter the news about the Start Menu, the name briefly had me convinced someone actually rebuilt all of Windows in React Native.
- fithisux 1mo agoThis is a donation reminder for me.