One thing about ReactOS. It is not "clean" code and could possibly lead to legal action. It is one thing to watch what code does in a black box situation. It's wholly different to replicate code. No one wants to sponsor activities of the second type. James On Dec 7, 2014 7:49 PM, "Andrew Udvare" <audvare@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 2014-12-07, at 14:57, jay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > > >> > >> If you want a stand alone Wine, you are looking at React OS, > >> which is awful .... > >> > > > > I have noticed that also. Does anyone here know anything about the > > ReactOS project? Is it ever going to be a respectable free non-Unix > > operating system, like Haiku or Plan 9? > > Yes. To answer your second question, I do not generally think so unless a > company really wants to fund and do it. It has been a 100% voluntary effort > from day 1 and has made a decent amount of progress. It borrows a good > portion of Wine for its code but also does things Wine does not such as > work with devices. ReactOS is pariah-like. People know it exists but almost > nobody uses it. > > Their main problem is motivation. Who really wants to build a full clone > of Windows (as opposed to do something more original)? There have been > attempts in the past but none have come so far as ReactOS. I only defend > the project (as with Wine) in the sense that someday these old applications > may not run and we have an alternative to emulation. However, I do not > think ReactOS or Wine will be the norm for running older applications over > emulation unless it is fully supported (like how Wine has the commercial > product). > > ReactOS had a good initial start. A Windows replacement when Windows went > south with Vista was the thought. But that faded quickly. Key contributors > left the project due to lack of interest, and it got stuck for at least a > year, however the website was maintained seemingly. The project recently > was part of a IndieGogo funding effort, but even that failed to meet its > goal. There clearly is just not a lot of interest. > https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/reactos-community-edition > > Would it be cool to have a viable Windows replacement? Maybe. Given that I > only use Windows VMs to test IE it does not matter to me. It could maybe > help people still using Windows 3.x/OS/2/95 move to something modern and > supported (if those companies are not getting support from Microsoft), but > still runs their old applications. However, I am pretty sure we do not want > them on a Windows-like kernel/OS in general. > > I would not call ReactOS awful (in fact I respect the effort), but similar > to telling some company their product does not work in Wine, it is rather > exotic. > > Andrew > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20141208/3c32cca4/attachment.html>
