![]() So, yes, the devs are free to spend their time as they wish but they really should be more cautious with their promises. I donated to the “ReactOS community edition, which was already the second crowdfunding campaign and promised a lot which the project since hasn’t delivered. Not about the OS doing “anything at all” but about is becoming able to actually run applications and do stuff. The problem I am having is that the impression the fundraising campaigns have been invoking is totally different. You should be completely amazed that it does anything at all, not be complaining that it isn’t perfect. You see, that will happen when you’re doing something really really complicated in your spare time. Most developers capable of and interested in working on ReactOS would rather be working on real Windows code or products for Windows.īut yeah they could be going faster I suppose ReactOS also doesn’t benefit from the publicity and passionate fanbase that the Haiku project benefits from. ReactOS is chasing a moving target, a much more mature OS with much more stringent compatibility requirements than BeOS, and which is an order or two of magnitude bigger and more complex than BeOS. Haiku also gets to extend beyond BeOS in areas where BeOS had no or only skeletal features. To be fair, Haiku is chasing an OS (BeOS) that hasn’t been actively developed in 15 years, and wasn’t anywhere near as complex and mature as the Windows NT family is even back then. Last I tried (which is a few weeks back), it worked like a charm, including the Wifi. The Haiku crowd has, and even though Haiku is officially still at alpha stage, you can download and install a nightly build and it will actually run on real hardware. To investigate, determine, document and design as well as the actual coding are the limiting factors that make ReactOS progress slower than it would otherwise be.Ī space analogy: Think about building an identical NASA spacecraft yourself by only watching movies of it take off, operate and land… No reference to NASA designs. ReactOS coders are not allowed to refer to source code releases nor to Windows code stated in plain text in Windows manuals, it is expressly forbidden to prevent any accidental copying. The main issue is that a lot of what Windows does is simply undocumented. Only test it in a virtual environment until compatibility is achieved and hardware support is provided, testing on real hardware is largely pointless.Īll ReactOS coding is performed independently and re-engineers what Windows already does. If it works for you be pleasantly surprised but keep your higher expectations publicly to yourself as it could show a misunderstanding of what alpha grade software is. If it really came down to a court case over fair use, I shutter to think that their right to work on reactos could come down to courtroom jurisdiction and who’s got the more expensive lawyers.ĭon’t expect ReactOS to do anything as it is in Alpha. One thing I wonder is if it were a viable replacement, and people started to really use it, how well would it stand up legally? I mean, they don’t copy any code from windows and independently reimplementing software to be compatible with an API used to be entirely legal, but the oracle API case law could change all of that. Still, it keeps moving in the right direction and considering the project is in alpha state it’s pretty damn good, but it does keep it from being a viable replacement. I’d like for reactos to be technically good enough to replace windows for day to day use, but I’ve found it isn’t reliable enough to install & run applications consistently. I’d be curious to try the windows 8 replacement shells in reactos… The GUI is reminiscent of windows 2K, which is fine by me because I don’t care about the eye candy that came with XP or any of the crap that came with windows 8. I try react os every now and then, I’m definitely interested in it’s potential. Alternative OSes are a good thing and more are needed.
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