____/ Mark Kent on Friday 21 September 2007 09:23 : \____
> The Ghost In The Machine <ewill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Mark Kent
>><mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote
>> on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:45:34 +0100
>><u4aas4-339.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> [H]omer <spam@xxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> Verily I say unto thee, that Mark Kent spake thusly:
>>>>> [H]omer <spam@xxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>>>
>>>>>>> How to install 145 operating systems on one PC
>>>>>> http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=147959
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nutter! :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I've just had a look and I'm slightly disappointed - no cpm86 and no
>>>>> netware and no xenix... ;-)
>>>>
>>>> He also missed some current ones like QNX, SkyOS, AROS, Haiku, Menuet,
>>>> Syllable, and of course GNU/Hurd.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It's amazing how many X86 operating systems Microsoft have managed to
>>> kill so far. Still, they've not managed to kill the BSDs, nor have they
>>> managed to kill Linux or the Hurd. I'll wait and see for ReactOS!
>>>
>>
>> ReactOS looks like an interesting venture; they claim
>> "complete binary compatibility" with both NT/XP
>> applications and device drivers. Presumably, this
>> includes some of the flaws -- the "shatter message" flaw
>> being the only obvious one. It is declared alpha but a
>> number of screenshots showing ReactOS running various
>> Windows-intended games and applications (including MS
>> Office 2003, Quake, and Unreal Tournament) are available.
>>
>> (The TuxPaint snapshot is slightly embarrassing. :-P :-) )
>>
>> http://www.reactos.org/
>>
>> My main concern is on a personal level: I have nVidia and
>> Athlon hardware, and one hopes the Windows drivers therefor
>> would work in ReactOS. Presumably they've taken care of
>> that issue already; my hardware's not exactly esoteric.
>>
>> I'm assuming ReactOS is bootable through GRUB, much like
>> Windows XP is today. A Unix build environment is available.
>>
>
> It's a very interesting project, although I suspect that by the time its
> really usable, the world might well have moved on to linux anyway, which
> is quite similar to what happened to the FreeDOS Project. It's still
> live and lively, but doesn't have the kudos it had back when most
> people's best machine was a 486, and they still had old 386 and 286
> machines around and needed a free OS. Similar story for the ELKS
> project, too, I think.
>
> Still, I saw ReactOS running at a Linux expo a couple of years ago,
> doing quake, but with emulated OpenGL.
Some people say that the project has legal uncertainty. One of the project's
leader (if not *the* leader) recently defected to Microsoft, IIRC.
It makes you wonder if a virus-prone O/S is being built the open source way,
with all the fundamental design flaws. This isn't a way of making fun of this
project, which I admire by the way. It could allow you to run some old games
like Sam & Max (that's what the pictures showed).
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