If anyone has a spare machine kicking around and fancies playing, ReactOS have just released 0.3.1 of their operating system.If you;re wondering what ReactOS is, it's basically a free open source "built from the ground up" implementation of a Microsoft Windows XP compatible operating system. That means it looks like Windows, acts like Windows, and you can install Windows apps on it with ease.
The only difference is it is free and you can rewrite the code for it if you are that way inclined. I've played around with it off and on for a while now, and to be honest I've found it to be more stable than Windows and it will run most everyday applications. Click the image on the right and you'll see how familiar it is.
4 comments:
Very interesting; will it run IE?
DK
Now why the feck would we want to do that.
If you're a geek you can play with Linux, if you want something that works you've got the BSDs (and Solaris and HPUX, IRIX, AIX etc, etc). If you want somebody else to do the work you have OSX.
If you want to pay for it, you have M$ or Unixware :)
Why an XP clone? It's obsolescent for Raymond's (no, not Redmond) sake? Vmware??
S-E
You're web developer who needs to test with IE, only has a Mac, and doesn't want to buy Windows?
I might take a look at that for fun, although I'm not one of the anti-MS crowd, myself.
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