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.
Re: boycott slashdot (Score:2, Insightful)
Unless the new site runs on ReactOS, please shut the fuck up about slashdot beta.
Re: version 0.3.16. (Score:3, Insightful)
Inkscape went from 0.35 to 0.48 in its 11 years of existence, and is one of the very best and most useful software the free software community has produced. Don't take the 1.0 number too seriously, because there are many other numbering schemes.
Re:One day.... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re: version 0.3.16. (Score:2, Insightful)
by the time ReactOS hits 1.0, I can't imagine Windows will be using the NT platform anymore.
Then a compatible alternative will be more needed than ever.
Re:One day.... (Score:4, Insightful)
With a proper installer, an application requiring those would provide the version it needs, aka DLL hell. If some form of SxS is implemented, you get version specific runtime and no DLL hell.
There has been no need to rewrite those, for that reason, other than having stubs to link against. And since they reuse wine libs, it may be a wine stub rather than something reactos intends to work.
Once you are enlightened, your statement is now false. It will get more compatible. And if you require those libraries and it is legal do to so, you can obtain them directly from Microsoft, or the app developer, or anyone.
There is a reason they are called redistributables. Guess what that is? Go on, I'll give you a hint if you need one.
And most programs need terminal services? No, some very specific ones do. And that is the idea behind thorium virtual kickstarter. If people fund it, it will exist.
Re:Please stop the redirection to beta (Score:4, Insightful)
Note that so far there has been no admission of just how bad the beta is, only promises to implement missing features and fiddle with the layout. They don't think it is badly broken, that's the problem. It just needs polishing and some more features in their minds.
The end is coming. The acknowledgement of the problems changed nothing, other than to stop the protests. It seems like most people are just waiting for the end now, consciously or not.
Re: boycott slashdot (Score:2, Insightful)
Sorry, some of us give a shit and don't want the site to die. Feel free to give up, but don't try to shut down other people's protests.
Please stop the denial of service spam comments (Score:3, Insightful)
WTF should we have to wade past hundreds of offtopic posts before we get to the comments about the article?
Re:Please stop the redirection to beta (Score:4, Insightful)
I like the redesign, and the occasional redirection to the beta just makes life interesting.
Geez, take it easy. You act like Slashdot killed your dog.