ReactOS

Due to overwhelming demand, we have created a forum just dedicated to Toughbook users who use Linux!
Message
Author
User avatar
Shawn
Posts: 2960
Joined: Fri Jan 18, 2013 11:35 am

ReactOS

#1 Post by Shawn »

Anyone explore this yet?
Based on Win NT sort of.

https://www.reactos.org/

Image
Last edited by Shawn on Sun May 22, 2016 4:32 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Life will beat you into submission.

User avatar
Shawn
Posts: 2960
Joined: Fri Jan 18, 2013 11:35 am

Re: ReactOS

#2 Post by Shawn »

Also what about Haiku OS
https://www.haiku-os.org/
or

eComStation

http://www.ecomstation.com/


Haiku
Image


eComStation
Image
Life will beat you into submission.

User avatar
SHEEPMAN!
Posts: 2239
Joined: Thu Oct 14, 2010 1:13 pm
Location: TDR-HQ California

Re: ReactOS

#3 Post by SHEEPMAN! »

As far as Reactos goes get the liveCD. The other will want to install to hdd as I read it.
Fair for you/ Fair for me.
I chose to NOT be organized.

-------------------------------------------------------------------[/color]
http://toughbooktalk.com/
http://forum.notebookreview.com/panasonic/

User avatar
Shawn
Posts: 2960
Joined: Fri Jan 18, 2013 11:35 am

Re: ReactOS

#4 Post by Shawn »

10-4 on the Live CD.
Life will beat you into submission.

User avatar
Shawn
Posts: 2960
Joined: Fri Jan 18, 2013 11:35 am

Re: ReactOS

#5 Post by Shawn »

ReactOS is based on Win NT

Haiku is based on BeOS

eComStation is based on OS/2
Life will beat you into submission.

User avatar
SHEEPMAN!
Posts: 2239
Joined: Thu Oct 14, 2010 1:13 pm
Location: TDR-HQ California

Re: ReactOS

#6 Post by SHEEPMAN! »

The ReactOS might be fun......I didn't get as far as iso size.?????????????????
Fair for you/ Fair for me.
I chose to NOT be organized.

-------------------------------------------------------------------[/color]
http://toughbooktalk.com/
http://forum.notebookreview.com/panasonic/

User avatar
Shawn
Posts: 2960
Joined: Fri Jan 18, 2013 11:35 am

Re: ReactOS

#7 Post by Shawn »

ReactOS Live CD is 204mb
Life will beat you into submission.

User avatar
SHEEPMAN!
Posts: 2239
Joined: Thu Oct 14, 2010 1:13 pm
Location: TDR-HQ California

Re: ReactOS

#8 Post by SHEEPMAN! »

That's CD territory. :D 386, 486, 586, 686?

I'll look it up.

Thanks.
Fair for you/ Fair for me.
I chose to NOT be organized.

-------------------------------------------------------------------[/color]
http://toughbooktalk.com/
http://forum.notebookreview.com/panasonic/

User avatar
Karl Klammer
Posts: 193
Joined: Tue Oct 13, 2015 3:19 am
Location: Old Europe

Re: ReactOS

#9 Post by Karl Klammer »

I've just wasted 5 hours fooling around with the current stable releases of ReactOS on qemu on OpenBSD.

ReactOS feels much like a alpha release of Windows 95.
It'll probably take 5 more years to be as good as Wine and a whole decade to implement Windows XP level functionality.
The API compatibility really sucks:
- ipconfig /renew is missing
- MapFactor Navigator Free didn't install. It did two DNS queries and then returned an unknown networking error when it was supposed to do a http(s) connect.
- Garmin Mobile PC could be installed, but the GUI was very sluggish. I could do 1 click every 30 or so seconds. (some weird event handling, i assume). Missing API errors occured when trying to talk to COM1-(qemu)-ttyp1-(ldattach)-cua01-(openbsd)..

TLDR: Linux/Unix + Wine seems to be way better at running Windows stuff than ReactOS - even tough ReactOS borrowed some code from Wine.


@Jeff: ReactOS booted with qemu-system-i386 and qemu-system-x86_64, if that answers your question.

EDIT: 06:33 Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie - Every OS Sucks
Last edited by Karl Klammer on Tue May 31, 2016 6:08 pm, edited 1 time in total.

User avatar
SHEEPMAN!
Posts: 2239
Joined: Thu Oct 14, 2010 1:13 pm
Location: TDR-HQ California

Re: ReactOS

#10 Post by SHEEPMAN! »

I've probably used qemu but didn't realize it.

386 should work on a lot of the older units if it works. :(
Fair for you/ Fair for me.
I chose to NOT be organized.

-------------------------------------------------------------------[/color]
http://toughbooktalk.com/
http://forum.notebookreview.com/panasonic/

Post Reply

Return to “The LINUX forum!!!”