ReactOS 0.4.1 review - Cold fusion

Let us go cool and obscure today: a review of ReactOS, an open-source Windows-compatible operating system, including setup and installation as a virtual machine, desktop look & feel, customization, basic usage, browsing and multimedia, application management, resource usage, performance, various bugs and problems, relevance and future, and more. Take a look.

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/reactos-0-4.html


Cheers,
Mrk

 

Interesting, but looks almost obsolete even before it's completed.
Development seems much too slow, considering how fast everything else is going.

 

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I tried it some years ago:

- it's again an Alpha version ?
- does it works on 64 BIT ?
- there is a live cd version ?

 

It was a nice try, but it is dead. React OS is somewhere around Win95/Win98, even XP is better off. Linux in comparison is around Vista/Win7.

 

I like that it's there ! As it improves it'll be even better

 

Developers lack the resources and clout of Microsoft in doing rapid cycle update of the operating system.

When you don't have that, it'll always remain incomplete with a half-finished feel and look to it.

Windows is fast and stable and that's why its #1 OS on computers worldwide.

 

Now at version 0.4.2, wow!
I'm tempted to download the live CD to see where they are now.

 

Also it uses FAT 32. Another drawback.