"Fake"? Where's the cause for inflammatory words? This project has a history which can be examined.
| ReactOS Project development started in 1996 as new clone of Windows 95.
For something to be "fake" it should claim to be something it is not: inauthentic in some way at least. By all accounts, this project is exactly what it claims to be.
What a poor title, whoever wrote the article should be ashamed.
ReactOS has been around for nearly 20 years. It's ground up re-write of Windows 9x with no microsoft code. That being said, the last time I played around with it was probably 2005 or so. It was an "interesting" project without a real purpose then, and it's still the same thing now. The world really doesn't need a 32bit windows clone anymore. For the rare, rare instances where you need a 9x base to work from, VMs are a better choice.
With Microsoft working on retiring pre-10 versions of Windows, I can imagine a lot of ppl want to run their ancient apps instead of upgrading. My only possible reason for interest in ReactOS is running Windows games, but would it be better for that than Wine?
If they're running ancient apps, they will probably be better off using an older Windows in a VM. Supported or not, it is still probably going to turn out better than ReactOS. Wine may do better than ReactOS, but probably not by much. There might be a few corner cases where this is different, but for most consumer and desktop software, this is pretty much what you can expect.
I wish it was a little better. I don't think it needs to get much better before some major wind comes under their wings. The server market would love the ability to spin up as many virtual machines of windows they can without license costs.
Some org some day will realize they can finally port a good number of their instances to it and move their license costs to donations and help steer the direction of development. It would be tax deductible for the owner to donate to it. It's not quite there where even one production could port to it but if they could just get there it would take off.
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9 u/effusive_ermine 02 Mar 2016 18:58
"Fake"? Where's the cause for inflammatory words? This project has a history which can be examined.
| ReactOS Project development started in 1996 as new clone of Windows 95.
For something to be "fake" it should claim to be something it is not: inauthentic in some way at least. By all accounts, this project is exactly what it claims to be.
2 u/Sev_ 02 Mar 2016 22:25
What a poor title, whoever wrote the article should be ashamed. ReactOS has been around for nearly 20 years. It's ground up re-write of Windows 9x with no microsoft code. That being said, the last time I played around with it was probably 2005 or so. It was an "interesting" project without a real purpose then, and it's still the same thing now. The world really doesn't need a 32bit windows clone anymore. For the rare, rare instances where you need a 9x base to work from, VMs are a better choice.
0 u/effusive_ermine 03 Mar 2016 03:29
With Microsoft working on retiring pre-10 versions of Windows, I can imagine a lot of ppl want to run their ancient apps instead of upgrading. My only possible reason for interest in ReactOS is running Windows games, but would it be better for that than Wine?
0 u/tribblepuncher 03 Mar 2016 04:09
If they're running ancient apps, they will probably be better off using an older Windows in a VM. Supported or not, it is still probably going to turn out better than ReactOS. Wine may do better than ReactOS, but probably not by much. There might be a few corner cases where this is different, but for most consumer and desktop software, this is pretty much what you can expect.
0 u/luckyguy 02 Mar 2016 22:06
I wish it was a little better. I don't think it needs to get much better before some major wind comes under their wings. The server market would love the ability to spin up as many virtual machines of windows they can without license costs.
Some org some day will realize they can finally port a good number of their instances to it and move their license costs to donations and help steer the direction of development. It would be tax deductible for the owner to donate to it. It's not quite there where even one production could port to it but if they could just get there it would take off.
0 u/weezkitty 03 Mar 2016 02:49
Fake how? Shit title.
It is very buggy though