Free Windows OS Alternative called ReactOS

in opensource •  8 years ago  (edited)

My name is Alexander Rechitksiy and I am representative of ReactOS Project (web-site http://reactos.org)

I ask you, “Imagine running your favorite Windows applications and drivers in an open-source environment you can trust. That’s ReactOS. Not just an Open but also a Free operating system.”

Despite what you may be thinking, ReactOS is not a Linux distro made to look and behave like Windows, however. It has actually been built from the ground up to be binary compatible with application and device drivers made for Windows XP\2003 and newer. ReactOS is streamlined and doesn’t require a powerful system and it is compatible with an array of popular Windows applications. There’s even a LiveCD download available if you’d like to give it a shot without committing to a full installation.

I want also inform you that, the first release candidate to the upcoming ReactOS 0.4.2 release is now available

There's a lot of improved file-system support that's been worked on for ReactOS 0.4.2, including read support for ReiserFS and UFS/FFS along with read/write support for EXT3 and Btrfs. ReactOS 0.4.2 also supports Cygwin and .NET 2.0/4.0

If you are interested in helping test this near final version of ReactOS 0.4.2, visit SourceForge.net for downloads
https://sourceforge.net/projects/reactos/files/ReactOS/0.4.2/

NOTICE: Please keep in mind that ReactOS project is still in alpha stage,
so do NOT install it on your main PC without proper backup!
But you can always try LiveCD or install it on virtual machine without any risk.

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Awesome project, but how can we know it is safe / not backdoored or something?

it is fully open source. You can check or modify everything by yourself

Keep going good work. I will try last release. It is becoming more stable with each release.

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Tried it years ago but haven't checked it out recently.....it is starting to look really good though so I may have to try it again soon!

Version 0.4.2 will be released very soon, and we already have huge plans for 0.4.3 which will be related with Google GSoC projects

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This is a screen from ReactOS?

Look like my win server 2003 =)

yes

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i like that what is free... i will give it a try... will download a live cd and test it... btw whats the size of the os.... an upvote for the post from my side..

it needs only 500 mb of HDD space

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Nice, never heard of this before...will have to check it out.

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Very good idea that is coming at the right time especially especially now that the dominant PC operating system world wide is planning to start charging a monthly fee in the years to come, so those who cannot afford these fees can have an alternative OS and not loss the use of the internet.

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