ReactOS - Does anyone care...

[savage]

Hi All,
just wondeing what you guys thought of ReactOS (http://www.reactos.org/), the OpenSource WinXP replacement.

Will it take off? Does anyone care?

[Robert Kosek]

Interesting!

Not sure if it'll take off, or if I care ... yet.

[LP]

Just checked it out, read some FAQs, manuals and forum. :)

It is a very attractive project, if I had more free time, I'd definitely install and check it out. Personally, I'm not very optimistic about Windows Vista as I still am not very fond of .NET either (after BDS 2006 came out, C# looks less attractive now ;)).

[Robert Kosek]

I hate .NET and am loathe to consider Vista as well ... and I concur about C# as well. Though some swear by .NET, I think it's a bad thing ... mainly since it can screw up essential things if the latest version is flawed.

It how my entire COM/OLE interface blew up one time...

[Stoney]

I've heard about it a while ago and downloaded the preloaded QEMU version. Very buggy and very slow. :(
But it has potential, and if the developers will reach beta status in the soon future, it could be capable of reducing the influence of Windows. I hope so.
As I read in the german forum, Delphi applications doesn't work (well) under ReactOS.

[JernejL]

delphi apps used not to work ;)

it is progressing fast now, it was a lot more buggy year ago, they are working on it a lot, see #reactos on freenode, networking also works now, and bugs are squashed regulary.

[jdarling]

Well it still doesn't run properly on a 64 bit processor (locks up before it can even boot). So while I'm keeping an eye on it, its useless to me : (.