ReactOS 0.4.16

 (reactos.org)

75 points | by marttt 6 hours ago

9 comments

  • MisterTea 7 minutes ago
    I do a lot of industrial automation and it is the one thing that keeps me boat-anchored to Windows. Every little programmable doodad like signal conditioners and temperature transmitters have their own USB programming cables and their own, mostly crappy windows config software. PLC software is another abomination, hopelessly Windows anchored, bloated GUI monsters, some built on top of Visual Studio (Beckhoff TwinCAT.)

    I have donated to ReactOS in the past in the hopes of one day freeing myself from this hell.

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    • Almondsetat 5 minutes ago
      Why not spend some money on an uncensored LLM to reverse engineer or create an open clean room reimplementation?
  • mysterydip 1 hour ago
    Looks like a lot of improvements on long-standing hard-to-find issues. Kudos to the team and thank you for providing an alternative OS that keeps getting better
  • giancarlostoro 23 minutes ago
    One of my favorite projects, maybe someday it can be a true daily driver, I wonder if that's the goal for 1.0 is to claim that they've gotten it stable enough to run as though it were Windows 7 or something to that effect.
  • guitarlimeo 18 minutes ago
    TIL that the GUI of ReactOS isn't based on React. All these years spent baffled that who would like to build an OS with JS, thanks to me only reading the headlines lol
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    • kijashdkujdfhas 8 minutes ago
      Well ReactOS did have a 15 year lead on the name over React...1998 vs 2013, going by first public release of each.
  • Aldipower 40 minutes ago
    Love it! Haiku, ReactOS and sure Linux. But if necessary, the real art of computing can be kept up!
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  • montroser 1 hour ago
    Quite the dedication have these people!
  • thataccount 1 hour ago
    This reminds me of the feeling of when Linux got graphical installers instead of long text based ones asking you many, many questions.
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    • forinti 1 minute ago
      It's not only that it was text based, but that it failed in all sorts of ways.

      I had a particularly bad afternoon in early 2000s when I tried to install Linux on various machines (4 or 5, each one with different hardware) and failed with all of them. Of course, I wasn't as savvy as I am now, but it's been years since I've seen an issue with a Linux install; although I might have to download and compile a driver for one thing or another, the install itself doesn't fail.

  • tiahura 1 hour ago
    This seems like the sort of project that ai would excel at. /goal excel runs flawlessly.
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    • actionfromafar 1 hour ago
      Well, Excel has AI now, so maybe it can help.
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      • aussieguy1234 36 minutes ago
        Excel writes Excel, which writes Excel...

        Now we have an infinite loop

    • plutokras 46 minutes ago
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