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ReactOS ....
hm_murdock:
Lindows is nothing like ReactOS. ReactOS is an OSS implementation of NT.
Dave Cutler even said it was damn good.
Aloone_Jonez:
When did David Cutler say that!
I'm also curious about ReactOS, as you know I've had problems with Linux, although I'm still interested. If/when ReatOS becomes more mature and supports most of the NT drivers, I will consider using it.
I will hope that there will be better desktops available than the Windows one. I don't want a free + better Windows clone, I want something a bit different, that's hopefully easier to use.
A cheeper Windows clone that just so happens to have a Linux kernel isn't my idea of a good OS.
If wanted a free Windows clone with a Linux kernel then I could just pirate Lindows. There again I could take any Linux distro, add Wine (if it isn't included), then slap-on XPde.
Anyway isn't Lindows only semi open source?
How did MS take a good OS, then fuck it up so horribley?
I've heard that VMS was almost as good as UNIX, if not even better in some ways.
Thank goodness they didn't get their sticky fingers on UNIX.
Hang on a second if they did, then Linux would have knocked them out!
But if they'd fucked up UNIX, and bastardised the standards, Linux may have only been as good as ReactOS.
Who knows!
insomnia:
quote:Originally posted by JimmyJames: GenSTEP Founder:
Lindows is nothing like ReactOS. ReactOS is an OSS implementation of NT.
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Wrong.
ReactOS is like Wine (remember, Wine Is Not an Emulator).
Lindows also uses a Wine Layer.
(IMO they both suck.)
Aloone_Jonez:
ReactOS is not an NT clone, in the way that Linux is an open source UNIX. ReactOS is an attempt to make an open source NT compatalbe operating system.
The kernel is unique, the plan is for it to use NT drivers and not Linux, thus it can't use Linux kernel.
The ReactOS development team have ported some Wine code, as it would be stupid for them to write it from scratch.
quote: Wine Is Not an Emulator
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Wrong, Wine is indeed an emulator!
I know where you got this idea from but the source is incorrect: http://www.winehq.com/site/myths#slow
This is wrong, IMO the use of the word emulator is very confusing. Wine does emulate Windows, by imitation and if you don't believe me look up the word emulation: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=emulation
This is done in a completely different manor to processor emulation, but even so, it is still emulation.
When a PC uses a software emulator to imitate a RISC PC, the program acts as an interpretor, by converting each RISC instruction in the program to it's PC equivalent, instruction by instruction. Processor emulation is shit slow, the same way that a basic interpretor or a python virtual machine is slower than C.
Wine isn't slow because it isn't an interpretor, it's just an API layer. Wine emulates Windows by the the use of a Windows API layer that then is bolted on to any x86 UNIX, which may be run on a different micro under a PC emulator.
I have seen many Windows programs running faster under Wine then they do under Windows, this is because Wine + Linux > effiecent than Windows.
hm_murdock:
quote:Wrong.
ReactOS is like Wine (remember, Wine Is Not an Emulator).
Lindows also uses a Wine Layer.
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No... you're wrong.
Wine translates Windows API calls to Linux and X11. ReactOS IS AN NT COMPATIBLE OPERATING SYSTEM. It doesn't run Linux and do any kind of translation. They've shared code with Wine, but that's it.
Your facts you must get straight. Speak not when your information is false! Mmmmmhmmmhmmm!
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