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Originally posted by sophisticles View PostPeople love to rag on Windows and MS, but Windows has always been at the cutting edge.
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Originally posted by Rabiator View PostFor running Windows software, there is a lot of overlap with WINE (and Valve's Proton for games). I doubt ReactOS will ever overtake those in usefulness, as they are also improving over time. Where ReactOS could be useful is running obscure hardware with its original Windows drivers, assuming ReactOS reaches its goals in that department.
Your scenario is most likely to work out for retro hardware, but it is also possible that Linux will fill that niche. Linux support for old hardware tends to be pretty long lived. There is still the occasional patch for the floppy driver...
Microsoft dumping x86 seems unlikely to me, they tried this with the Surface tablet to little success. IMHO Apple is the only one who can get away with such radical changes. They have very loyal users who will tolerate the inconvenience in the transition phase, as demonstrated before.
In the windows ecosystem there is almost no pressure to adopt in comparison - Sometimes im surprised that even 2022 there are still x86 builds of windows software around. Maybe a comfortable backwards compatibility is not too good after all?Last edited by CochainComplex; 14 March 2022, 04:15 AM.
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Originally posted by Vermilion View PostSerious question: Is there any environment where ReactOS is known to be used for real work / production as opposed to experimenting in a VM?
Edit: A harsher reformulation would be: For a project that's been 24 years in active development, does it have a use?
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ReactOS is a labor of love, that's all it needs to be. I have followed the project for years and commend the developers dedication and know they will achieve the goal set fourth so many years ago.
Linux was exactly the same thing.
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Originally posted by mirmirmir View PostI hope with all us companies sanctions on russia push russia into developing alternatives like reactos to windows.
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Originally posted by sophisticles View Post
The Pentium D 820, dual core, came out in 2005, I bought one as soon as it was released, and we still had XP 64.
Also, Windows has supported SMP since Windows NT, Win 2k supported SMP (and HT), 2k Server supported 4-way SMP, Advanced Server supported 8-way SMP and Win 2k Datacenter supported 32-way SMP
The Linux kernel at the time only scaled up to 16 cpu's and most distros didn't ship with the SMP kernel by default, you had to custom compile the kernel yourself:
People love to rag on Windows and MS, but Windows has always been at the cutting edge.
They had a box that accepted (2) 8 socket complex boards for running Unix and wanted to make sure that I knew that the number of CPU's was not going to be a limitation for running Windows Server.
In the mid-1990's there were a few hardware vendors who wanted to have a part of the Windows Server market. Parallan, Sequent, NCR, Compaq all marketed product in this space.
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ReactOS is actually surprisingly functional. though I tried to get qemu svga working but the driver installer kept crashing, but the same thing happened in vmware too, and the issue was already reported. a little bit of a shame, wanted to see if I could get gpu acceleration working in qemu
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I hope with all us companies sanctions on russia push russia into developing alternatives like reactos to windows.
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