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ReactOS 0.2.5 Relesed

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solemnwarning:
Just Thought I'd Let Every1 Know: www.reactos.com

Refalm:
Anyone tried this out?

How is this different from running Wine inside Linux?

v2os:
its has a windows like gui, looks almost exactly like windows except for where windows logos are replaced with reactos logos. much faster than actual windows so far, eventually it will support windows drivers too. note current official release is now 0.2.6, and next one should be 0.3

(wine can run more programs though)

piratePenguin:
The first time I tried ReactOS, almost a year ago I'd say, neither my mouse OR keyboard worked lol. But I tried it a few months ago and they worked. ReactOS seems pretty good (nowhere near ready though), but I had no windows apps to try :(. There was alot of unfinished features in it, and it crashed ALOT (even more than Windows 98).

I'm sure it's improving now, but I doubt it could replace Windows before GNU/Linux could.
It's a cool idea too, replacing (as in, copying, kinda) Windows with free software. If they made it stable, and got Windows apps/drivers to work, it would be good-as-finished, and could be very sucessful.

I'll try it again in a few weeks, with some Windows apps.

solemnwarning:
0.2.6 released, download the svn there are a load of bugfixes

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