"In a move that will be good for Redmond but may have consequences for the rest of us, Microsoft has acquired Winternals and Sysinternals. This gives them well-known developers Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell as well as dozens of well-loved and much-praised utilities, both commercial and fr...

It appears there is a nice review of ReactOS at NeoSmart (6 pages long) http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/07/13/1423245.shtml Anyone have a chance to review the review? When i try to view the site in question, all i get is "This Account Has Been Suspended Please contact the billing/support departmen...

Just noticed this: http://digg.com/software/Open_Source_Windows_Clone_ReactOS_releases_0.3_RC1 The only reason i point it out here is that its quite interesting reading peoples observations as against what people post in the forums as i take it that they are already somewhat familiar with reactos fo...

As for an opensource firewall... there is Core Force which is coming along quite nicely. The devs say that it "may be open source" when its done. Try it if you like, its still free. Do you wish to know more? http://force.coresecurity.com/ http://force.coresecurity.com/index.php?module=xarb...