The fact is, the driver situation is changing - or HAS changed. In the past, it was Linux who was lacking drivers. Nowadays, it is often Windows - because many nice things that used to work under XP are no longer supported. So yes, "foreign driver model" and so on and so forth are surely TECHNICAL p...

I think this thread should no longer be permanently on top. It was useful at the time, but has not been updated in years.

No, there is no SSH-server that I would know of. I was busy researching that in-depth, actually. Long story short: Some servers get you so far that you can "log in", BUT... you are NOT getting a shell. FreeSSHd & Kpym looked most promising, but did not work, last time I checked. What works: A varian...

Well, how often does Microsoft audit its code to make sure nobody of their devs smuggles in programs in breach of the GPL?

The reality is: having an established rule-set is all that can be required. NOBODY does "permanent audits". And nobody has to.

The point is, ReacOS is way beyond "the initial fun stage". And while they permanently stress it is not for everyday use, it is CLOSE to that. Now you need to handle compability issues, implementation details, etc. Not "fun", but the "last 20% which require 80% of the work". Not all too many are up ...

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I just found a rather similar logo, look on the upper left...

I confess: I totally like the current logo. The atom nicely reflects the "experimental" nature of the OS, as well as the difficulty of a task no less than a personal Manhattan project...

"Better" ... does not even matter. ReactOS is, to date, THE ONLY successful open-source-clone of Windows. You have NO choice besides ReactOS if you want a free and open system. In Unix-land, you have the choice from IllumOS to Minix, from NetBSD to Linux: and they quite different between each other,...

You are right after FreeBSD, and before Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Gentoo, Red Hat, Solaris, OpenBSD and a lot of other household names. Yeah, it may not "mean much", but it definitely means you are getting attention...

Being FOSS, ReactOS OBVIOUSLY can be reused by third parties, so that in itself is not an issue. HOWEVER: "This project is done by a broad variety of people. To discuss legal issues contact ReactOS Foundation organization." - This statement sounds as if anybody shall contact _us_ in order to clarify...

Well... then what you TRULY need is: 1. - "support for the most common Win16-installers" - which can be badly hacked together, because you do not need to support "EVERY" Win16-Program; or: 2. - "support un-archiving". Mostly, those "installers" were nothing but a sort of "unzip". Indeed, file-roller...

I just read a very interesting article by Andrew Tanenbaum: http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/3/198874-lessons-learned-from-30-years-of-minix/fulltext I think that article can be called "how to pulverize funding", because for all I read, he got SIX AND A HALF MILLION USD and did NOT manage to produ...

Hi everybody! Recently, there was a request that I re-test a Windows SSH server. Well, that exact program seemed to be no longer available (on a permanent basis anyway), so I retested with FreeSSHd and Kpym. Neither worked, nor did the Telnet component of FreeSSHd. What happens is basically this: yo...

Ahemmm... on a related note: does anything of Qemu / Virtualbox / DOSBOX run on ReactOS "well enough"? :) Because if it does, one can also emulate stuff. Personally... I don't care about the 16-bit-stuff. One has to make somewhere a "cut". A "cut" for a more and more irrelevant platform looks pretty...

What's wrong with their current "Helium atom"? - I mean, it befits the project perfectly - it reminds of nuclear fusion, which would be incredibly useful, but whenever one asks "is it done?" one gets the answer "not yet"...