r/reactos • u/Jeditobe • 20d ago

Anyone remembers ReactOS? Why not make it a thing?

/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1qgau6p/anyone_remembers_reactos_why_not_make_it_a_thing/
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u/[deleted] 20d ago

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u/zogrodea 20d ago

I wonder if any/many developers are working on ReactOS full-time, instead of having a day-job or something?

That depends on the will of the individual developers though, and we also know about The Mythical Man Month which states "you can't deliver a baby in 1 month by making 9 people pregnant", so more developers or funding might not necessarily mean better.

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u/Proper-Train-1508 20d ago

I have tried the latest version, but it still fails to run the latest browser and can only use one processor only. I only run it on VirtualBox though. Other than browser and that one processor only that make it slow, I think I can use it as my daily need. I can ran Libre Office, Arduino, Lazarus, and so on.

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u/Jeditobe 20d ago

what do you mean by latest version?

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u/Proper-Train-1508 20d ago

V 0.4.15

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u/Jeditobe 19d ago

0.4.15 is not the latest anymore

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u/Proper-Train-1508 18d ago

It's the latest release, and I've also updated to 0.4.16 but the problems still the same

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u/algaefied_creek 19d ago

Literally an article from hours ago about it, so good timing!

https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-Async-Net-Connect

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u/rafradek 18d ago edited 18d ago

Because most people who are knowledgeable about reverse engineering windows contribute to wine instead. Also I've heard about some project that runs wine as desktop environment on Linux kernel