ReactOS 0.4.0 Screencast and Screenshots
 

ReactOS 0.4.0 Screencast


https://www.reactos.org/project-news...s-040-released

ReactOS 0.4.0 Screenshots

WOW
 

A huge milestone in a project I value highly! Congratulations, and THANK YOU!

ReactOS doesn't get as much media attention as traditional open source operating systems, mostly because it's goal is an open source Win32/WinNT clone. This is huge as a release from them, and an honorable one to remember the efforts of Brandon and Ge' van who both passed away some time back and never got to see their legacy come to such favorable fruition.

Ok i'll try this, they moved to sourceforge now.

I trust sourceforge less these days than I once did, but ReactOS is worth some effort.
I am still waiting for a print spooler and CIFS drive mount support, but that is all it lacks for some of my production use.

Shouldn't there be a separate section for non-Linux screenshots?

Correct.
And the same goes for most opensource projects.
Since you already resurrected a 3-year old thread, where's ReactOS at nowadays? Anywhere near usable to replace Windows for running some applications that aren't available for Linux?

ReactOS is currently at 0.4.13 and has been a pretty good base for running SOME Windows applications since mid release 0.3! There are still things that are not ready for prime time. The latest news is always available at https://reactos.org/. It is now benefiting from Summer Of Code progress discussed on that page.

My take is that it has been something to consider a valuable tool showing promise for a considerable time now. I do not view it as a full OS or desktop replacement. Yet. It is getting there.

Thanks wpeckham.
Do you speak from experience? Has ReactOS been useful for you? If so, how/which apps?

Experience. I have been using ReactOS for odd things here and there since early version 3.

I have some games (DOS and early Windows games) that came on floppy or CD but installed to HD and did not require a CD, and those mostly ran fine. Sound was an issue in version 3 for me.

Nothing that required a CD worked, and I do believe that the device interface was not finished to the point of supporting that. There are still some stubs in that, but it is much better now. nothing that required mounting a remote disk or device worked on early 4, but I have not tried the same software on 0.4.13 yet.

I have some legacy business applications written for Windows NT or earlier that work perfectly. All of the applications I wrote myself in Pascal or a mixture of Pascal and Assembler work fine. Most of the things I have written in V (vlang) work out of the box. I did discover some Windows calls that must be avoided or modified, there are still functions that are stubbed in the ReactOS code. My BBS software does not handle modems correctly all of the time, but the right way to run a BBS these days is over internet anyway, and that pretty much works. If your software is partition or file system sensitive, you should be aware that file system support is still primitive in 0.3.x, barely better in 0.4.0, and suddenly got a lot better in recent releases. I have not tested everything, but there is now some NTFS and EXT support. (0.3 supported only certain FAT based formats, in general)

There used to be a database of applications that people had tried, what worked, what failed, and what worked partly but not completely, with notes, and keyed by both application version and ReactOS versions it had been tested for. Alas, that died and went away, and I have no idea who, if anyone, has that data. There is a forum (and a WIKI) linked at the ReactOS site where you can ask if anyone else has tested your application and found a way to make it work.

Really, since that database went away, an easy way to test is to fire up a ReactOS instance in VirtualBox and give your app a try. If the current release does not run it, try the daily build.

Keep in mind that even the release is alpha software, and it is still very much a work in progress. Given the objectives and roadblocks in the way, it may be alpha for a couple more years, and then Beta for a decade or two. The objectives sound deceptively simple, but the steps to achieve those goals are complex and interesting.

Both on those forums at ReactOS and here you can run into people who have used or even coded for ReactOS and know FAR more than I do. I just play with it a little, and use it to run things newer versions of windows cause to BORK. Others use it more and have far better information.

Good news.
I should try it in a VM. May I assume that it will run significantly lighter than Windows 7/8/10?
Anyhow, thanks again.
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With text lifted from the blog post linked in the first post.

And then an off-topic spam link edited into the post three days later.