Wine's dlls are Windows compatible to some extent, and yes, we use quite a bunch of them, because why reinventing the wheel twice? Does this make us another fork of a fork of a forked Linux distro? Nope, luckily not. I'm not suggesting that either. That's why I'm here, trying to use an alpha, inste...

"since I'm expecting it to have access to the same Wifi drivers that Linux has." Uuuuh, nope? What makes you come to such a conclusion? This: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS collaborates with many other FOSS projects,[16][17] most notably the Wine project, which presents a Windows c...

What relates to you main question, it was not fully clear for me, do you want to run your PDOS OS over ReactOS booted from USB or you want to take some USB drivers out of ReactOS and integrate them into PDOS, making it able to boot from USB immediately. My guess, you meant the first option. Hi. Sor...

I have done some more research and have a different use case. 1. PDOS/386 boots from USB stick and user can write an ASCII text document using micro-emacs (this works). 2. User takes USB stick to internet cafe to send via email using gmail. (this works too) Now, can I replace a physical trip to the ...

Maybe I'll test it on the the live usb version first. Keep in mind ReactOS doesn't support USB boot yet, but you can try it using RAM disk boot via USB: https://reactos.org/wiki/Installing_ReactOS#USB_RAM_boot Through various trickery I got it to USB boot on my MacBook. Could you please elaborate o...

Hello. For the last approx 25 years, I have been developing my own OS, called PDOS, which has evolved into a 32-bit partial Windows clone, ie just like ReactOS. You can find it here: http://pdos.sourceforge.net/ The code is all public domain, so anything of interest can be included in ReactOS withou...