Windows Replacement? ReactOS 0.3.16 Gets Themes, CSRSS Rewrite, and More 179
jeditobe writes with this announcement from the ReactOS home page: "The ReactOS Project is pleased to announce the release of version 0.3.16. A little under a year has passed since the previous release and a significant amount of progress has been made. More than 400 bugs were eliminated. Some of the most significant include completion of the CSRSS rewrite and the first stages of a shell32 rewrite. 0.3.16 is in many ways a prelude to several new features that will provide a noticeable enhancement to user visible functionality. A preview can be seen in the form of theme support, which while disabled by default can be turned on to demonstrate the Lautus theme developed by community member Maciej Janiszewki. Another user visible change is a new network card driver for the RTL8139, allowing ReactOS to support newer versions of QEMU out of the box."
You can download release images here.
Want to see how it handles Windows software? Here are demos of Office 2003, Photoshop CS2, and OpenMPT.
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Slashdot replacement (Score:0, Informative)
Everybody go to http://www.soylentnews.org
Re:Please stop the redirection to beta (Score:5, Informative)
On Topic (Score:3, Informative)
Re:What's wrong with the beta? (Score:5, Informative)
Have some comparison screenshots [imgur.com]. First, between the first two pics, note that slashdot's solution to the problem that after you get three-four comments deep in a conversation it becomes unreadable is to just not show comments beyond that point unless you repeatedly mash the get more comments button (compare to Reddit's solution of having a link directly to the rest of the thread). Also note how little text fits on the screen in the beta version compared to the classic version.
For the third screenshot, note how the fonts for different comments are different for no reason, and how small the comment box is. It's also worth noting that they've removed the maxlength attribute on the comment subject box, so instead of the browser telling you when you've reached the limit, your subject is truncated.
Support ReactOS on Kickstarter!!1 (Score:3, Informative)
Re:On Topic (Score:5, Informative)
Re:One day.... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Toy project (Score:5, Informative)
Actually the whole idea of ReactOS was to provide a binary compatible kernel so Windows drivers could be loaded unmodified.
At the time ReactOS was started the lack of drivers was seriously hurting Linux. Meanwhile the situation has changed and drivers for Linux are no longer something unheard of.
Also note that ReactOS and Wine share a lot of the higher level library code - in fact all libraries that are pure Win32 with no calls to native libraries.