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Originally posted by Arkhchance View PostI don't get why doing an OS who's windows compatible. I mean Windows is ( imo ) full of bad decision and works badly. Why would you copy an OS like that ? For fun maybe but I don't see any other reason.
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Originally posted by BO$$ View PostSo why shouldn't they continue using Windows? It's not like using ReactOS means added security. There are probably many more security issues in ReactOS now than a sp3 Windows XP.
Then again, these days virtualization solutions like KVM have really nice passthrough capabilities, so this use case could be obsolete before ReactOS even gets to that point.
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Originally posted by Arkhchance View PostI don't get why doing an OS who's windows compatible. I mean Windows is ( imo ) full of bad decision and works badly. Why would you copy an OS like that ? For fun maybe but I don't see any other reason.
In the UNIX-world, I consider compatibility with Windows backwards-compatibility.
WINE did it just right by bringing in a well-fitting interface to the operating system. If you plan to go as far as bringing driver-compatibility, it goes down to the Kernel-level and is especially hard considering Microsoft's Kernel-interfaces aren't documented well.
That's just my 2 cents.
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Originally posted by benmoran View PostThen again, these days virtualization solutions like KVM have really nice passthrough capabilities, so this use case could be obsolete before ReactOS even gets to that point.
Although I do feel that adding an additional stack to worry about would not be desirable in some cases and if presented with the two options. Moreover, if there are any NEW installations for which a company could use the vendor's older software for some piece of equipment but for the lack of valid XP licenses, then I could see use cases where this would be a good thing to avoid being out of compliance on their licensing.
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Originally posted by BSDude View PostIf they want to aim for any of the current XP users they have to have something stable by the end of support for XP in 2014 which is very unlikely to happen. By the time ReactOS would come out with something stable 2-3 years from now, those that were on XP would've moved on.
I 2015 there will be still a lot of WinXP-powered machinery...
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