![]() ![]() The ReactOS project was launched in 1996 as “FreeWin95” to give the users a free Windows Like Operating System, which is free. But with ReactOS, users can actually use a free Operating System, which is some what like Open Source Microsoft Windows. For Mac, there are solutions plus Mac OS X runs Windows on Virtualization. The users who has no Windows OS, but uses only Linux and needs to run certain native Windows Applications, usually uses Wine named app. It’s written from scratch as per their official sayings. The operating system ReactOS is largely under the GNU GPL, but some of its constituents under the LGPL or BSD license. ReactOS is not based on UNIX or UNIX Like Operating System, some of which looks like Windows Graphical User Interface (GUI). ReactOS aims the kernel of Windows NT to be compatible with, making it possible for programs and drivers designed for Windows NT and its successors such as Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows 7 can run. Side note: How great is it that we live in a time when total Windows compatibility just isn't all that interesting? There was a time when that functionality would have been, to borrow a highly over-used term, a real game-changer.ReactOS is a free operating system that is compatible with Microsoft Windows applications with the goal to complete binary compatibility for Microsoft Windows. ![]() ReactOS implementing a Windows 2003-compatible system I just find noteworthy. ![]() AROS creating an AmigaOS-compatible system I find noteworthy, fascinating, and fun. What I find interesting is that both AROS and ReactOS are implementing an older system – both with amazing success – yet my reaction to them is profoundly different. That way I could benefit from running Linux software side-by-side with Windows software. However, if I were to really want to run Windows software, I would probably do it via WINE. And the fact that this is Free Software, yet could be a drop-in replacement for Windows for many people, is incredibly cool. It's not as pretty as a modern Linux Desktop (or AROS). I really don't have anything bad to say about ReactOS. Right about there is where I started developing a bit of a tick and realized that ReactOS was slowly draining what little remained of my sanity. The same software (for the most part) that I use every day on Linux is right here. From within it you can even install a large number of FOSS software staples, such as Firefox, LibreOffice, and The Gimp.Īll the Windows versions of those applications, naturally.Īfter I went through and installed the Windows version of just about every application I typically install and use on my Linux Desktops, I had a system I could easily live in full-time. But it's damned impressive that it exists and works so well.īeyond simply being Open Source, ReactOS has one cool features that Windows never really provided properly: An application manager that is laid out and structured like a Linux package manager. ![]() If I'm honest, I really don't know how ReactOS makes me feel. ![]()
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