Re: OT: complaining about your OS
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Feb 18, 2016
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ReactOS is a free and opensource "Windows" operating system that runs OpenEuphoria.
I downloaded ReactOS 0.4 as a VirtualBox download of 90MB. I tested OE4.0.5 (32-bit) and it works! This will take you back to W95 and NT days.
_tom
Hmm.
From the wikipedia page:
On 27 January 2006, the developers responsible for maintaining the ReactOS code repository disabled access after a meeting was held to discuss the allegations. When approached by NewsForge, Microsoft declined to comment about the incident. Since ReactOS is a free and open source software development project, the claim triggered a negative reaction by the free software community; in particular, Wine barred several now inactive developers from providing contributions and formal high level cooperation between the two projects remains difficult to this date
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS
This got so bad that there was a moratorium on WINE accepting ReactOS patches. I haven't heard any news lately but AFAIK it's still in place (though a given patch may be reviewed and accepted on a case-by-case basis).
