ReactOS Being Rewritten, Gets Wine Infusion

xlotlu writes "ReactOS was meant as a free and open-source operating system, binary-compatible with Microsoft Windows. But after 11 years in development it never reached a satisfactory level of usability. Due to lack of developers, reimplementing the Win32 subsystem proved to be a much too complex task, holding the project back. Given the deficiencies of the current implementation, developer Aleksey Bragin decided to rewrite it from scratch, drawing heavily from the Wine project. Bragin's announcement on the ReactOS mailing list makes a compelling argument for this decision."

Rewritten?

[Idimmu Xul]

Does that make ReactOS the Vista of the open source world?!!!

Welcome To OpenSource

[Anonymous Coward]

Because then Aleksey Bragin would just be just another nameless contributer to the Wine project and he wouldn't have his name and duplicated efforts getting on Slashdot.

Wait a second...

[Monkeedude1212]

But after 11 years in development it never reached a satisfactory level of usability

That sounds familiar [wikipedia.org]

Re-reactOS?

[davidwr]

Maybe they should rename it?

Re-ReactOS?

ReactOSRebooted?

ha

[nomadic]

But after 11 years in development it never reached a satisfactory level of usability.

Wait, ReactOS or Wine?

Re:Ummm...nonsense

[Anonymous Coward]

Nonsense. His freedom to do whatever he wants far outweighs my interest in getting him to work on something else for nothing. I doubt if anything outweighs my desire for free stuff.

Re:Re-reactOS?

[tieTYT]

ReactOSForever

Re:Misleading summary

[sbalneav]

.... How is it that they can get around this problem?

#ifdef POSIX
      blah;
#elif REACTOS
      foo;
#endif

Not too hard.

Re:Ummm...

[the_hellspawn]

I would love to have a Model T that has been modernized. That would be so sweet! Oh, it must have the oooooggga horn too. Yeah!

Is it that hard

[Anonymous Coward]

Is it that hard to be bug for bug compatible with Windows? I guess writing bugs is an art to itself

Re:Ummm...

[Hurricane78]

I still think, especially with Microsoft, there is some truth in:

“Those who don’t understand Unix are doomed to reinvent it, poorly.”

Re:ha

[fred fleenblat]

windows

vive la différence

[Gary W. Longsine]

You've accidentally illustrated the difference between hardware and software. If you had, instead, said something similar about a hypothetical effort to clone the PC XT, expressing your admiration for the architectural design of the ISA bus, longing perhaps for the "real true, and familiar, full length slot" of the XT chassis, and the thousands of add-in cards like 9600 Baud modems and Parallel Printer Adaptors that you could still pick up at ReCompute, people would immediately mod you into oblivion, and I wouldn't even have to see your idiotic post. But if you say anything, no matter how crazy, about software, it makes you a hero in the eyes of somebody with mod points.

Re:Ummm...

[BitZtream]

So I see you've used Linux ...

11 years? Minimum wage.

[Anonymous Coward]

Wouldn't it have been quicker for him to just work a few hours at McDonalds and buy a damn academic version of Windows 98SE?

Re:Ummm...nonsense

[suso]

I doubt if anything outweighs my desire for free stuff.

I concur. I doubt anything outweighs AC's desire for free stuff.