ReactOS

[Shawn]

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

https://www.reactos.org/

[Shawn]

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

eComStation

http://www.ecomstation.com/


Haiku



eComStation

[SHEEPMAN!]

As far as Reactos goes get the liveCD. The other will want to install to hdd as I read it.

[Shawn]

10-4 on the Live CD.

[Shawn]

ReactOS is based on Win NT

Haiku is based on BeOS

eComStation is based on OS/2

[SHEEPMAN!]

The ReactOS might be fun......I didn't get as far as iso size.?????????????????

[Shawn]

ReactOS Live CD is 204mb

[SHEEPMAN!]

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

I'll look it up.

Thanks.

[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

[SHEEPMAN!]

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

386 should work on a lot of the older units if it works.