raincoater wrote:
> Here is a bit from Slashdot.
>
> An anonymous reader writes "NeoSmart Technologies has an incredibly
> detailed (6 long pages!) and mostly positive review of ReactOS, The Open
> Source Windows. The review covers the goals of ReactOS and how well it

A M$ Window$ clone??

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On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 01:23:03 GMT-7, (E-Mail Removed) (raincoater)
wrote:

>An anonymous reader writes "NeoSmart Technologies has an incredibly
>detailed (6 long pages!) and mostly positive review of ReactOS, The Open
>Source Windows. The review covers the goals of ReactOS and how well it
>meets them, system stability, application compatibility, kernel design and
>development, and the networking stack. It discusses the use of WINE in
>ReactOS' kernel and the effect on both its compatibility and development
>times."

Sounds as if "anonymous" may be one of the developers.

raincoater wrote:
> Here is a bit from Slashdot.
>
> http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/...it.slashdot.or
> %2Farticle.pl%3Fsid%3D06%2F07%2F13%2F1423245%26from%3Drss

If anyone's interested, here's the direct link to the blog:

http://neosmart.net/blog/archives/220

Interesting read.

On 17 Jul 2006 13:48:31 -0700, "eymard" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>
>If anyone's interested, here's the direct link to the blog:
>
>http://neosmart.net/blog/archives/220
>
>Interesting read.

You sort of get the feeling that the reviewer was less than
enthusiastic about being assigned this review at first. Then he
started digging and realized it was fairly well done, but incomplete.

I look forward to v1.0, but at the glacial development pace, a Windows
OS clone may no longer be a viable thing!

l8r
===========================================================================
Chris

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:18:28 -0500, Chris Dubea wrote:

> On 17 Jul 2006 13:48:31 -0700, "eymard" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>
>>If anyone's interested, here's the direct link to the blog:
>>
>>http://neosmart.net/blog/archives/220
>>
>>Interesting read.
>
> You sort of get the feeling that the reviewer was less than
> enthusiastic about being assigned this review at first. Then he
> started digging and realized it was fairly well done, but incomplete.
>
> I look forward to v1.0, but at the glacial development pace, a Windows
> OS clone may no longer be a viable thing!
>
> l8r
> ===========================================================================
> Chris

I remember seeing ReactOS when it was intended as a NT4 clone. Now intended
as a Win2K clone. With Vista now on a release schedule, who knows it could
get bumped again and probably will, will the ReactOS team have a complete
OS by the time that a Win2K clone is so obsolete that it's worthless? At
the pace things are currently moving, I see a distinct possibility that
Microsoft may be presenting a moving target that cannot be hit at the
current development pace. It would be so cool to have a Windows alternative
that MS has no involvement in. I suspect that if it gets complete the MS
lawyers will be called to action. I seriously believe if it becomes a
threat, MS will do what it can to squash it.

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On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:06:07 -0600, H-Man <I-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>
>I remember seeing ReactOS when it was intended as a NT4 clone. Now intended
>as a Win2K clone. With Vista now on a release schedule, who knows it could
>get bumped again and probably will, will the ReactOS team have a complete
>OS by the time that a Win2K clone is so obsolete that it's worthless? At
>the pace things are currently moving, I see a distinct possibility that
>Microsoft may be presenting a moving target that cannot be hit at the
>current development pace. It would be so cool to have a Windows alternative
>that MS has no involvement in. I suspect that if it gets complete the MS
>lawyers will be called to action. I seriously believe if it becomes a
>threat, MS will do what it can to squash it.

I've been following it about that long as well. I've also wondered
when MS will decide to put the hammer down.

I sincerely hope that it comes to fruition, but I'm not sitting here
biting my nails waiting.
===========================================================================
Chris

Here is a bit from Slashdot.

An anonymous reader writes "NeoSmart Technologies has an incredibly
detailed (6 long pages!) and mostly positive review of ReactOS, The Open
Source Windows. The review covers the goals of ReactOS and how well it
meets them, system stability, application compatibility, kernel design and
development, and the networking stack. It discusses the use of WINE in
ReactOS' kernel and the effect on both its compatibility and development
times."


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