ReactOS - Free and open source operating system

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What is ReactOS? ReactOS™ is an Open Source effort to develop a quality operating system that is compatible with applications and drivers written for the Microsoft® Windows™ NT family of operating systems (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 7).

The ReactOS project, although currently focused on Windows Server 2003 compatibility, is always keeping an eye toward compatibility with Windows Vista and future Windows NT releases.

The code of ReactOS is licensed under GNU GPL 2.0.

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ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Reaches The Milestone Of Being Able To Run Half-Life (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 3 months ago by cm0002@lemy.lol to c/reactos@programming.dev

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[–] xianjam@programming.dev 23 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

Great, maybe in another 2 decades we can run Half-Life 2!

Shade aside, this is cool. I just remember about 20 years ago when I first got into free software that I was so excited about learning about the project just for progress to be excruciatingly slow.

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[–] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 5 points 3 months ago*

That's okay by me. In fact I prefer the utterly bloat-free Win2K-style utilitarian OS. Make the foundation solid, and let each user add their preferred bloat collections on top.

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[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

They will be ready for HL3 before it's released then

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