~Toughbooktalk~

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

https://www.reactos.org/

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

eComStation

http://www.ecomstation.com/


Haiku



eComStation

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

10-4 on the Live CD.

ReactOS is based on Win NT

Haiku is based on BeOS

eComStation is based on OS/2

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

ReactOS Live CD is 204mb

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

I'll look it up.

Thanks.

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

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

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