ReactOS 0.4.7-RC1 Is The Latest As "Open-Source Windows"

[phoronix]

Phoronix: ReactOS 0.4.7-RC1 Is The Latest As "Open-Source Windows"

Less than two months after the ReactOS 0.4.6 release, ReactOS 0.4.7-RC1 is available for testing...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ReactOS-0.4.7-RC1

[Brophen]

Looks like a lot of good work is being put into it. Think it's stable enough where I can install it on a friend's computer or not quite yet?

[Michael]

Looks like a lot of good work is being put into it. Think it's stable enough where I can install it on a friend's computer or not quite yet?

I never had much luck on it with real hardware, only VMs. If it's a really old computer, it might work.

[tildearrow]

Typo:

started work o na "storport"

[Brophen]

Gotcha, I'll wait a bit longer then, some people just have to use Windows programs and this may be the ticket for them, but we will see!

[cb88]

The trouble is it doesn't really support drivers in a compatible enough way to be able to just drop in windows drivers... Even drivers are a moving Target unfortunately. So untill you can just drop Linux or windows drivers right in its a no go for most people. The exception being people that don't need any 3d or sound support... Or USB support etc...

[Kemosabe]

I can't imagine seeing ReactOS in any productive environment during our lifetimes ... during the lifespan of Microsoft, the earth, the universe.

[Xaero_Vincent]

Does ReactOS only support applications targeting Windows 2000 / XP platform or older (NT 5.x) or will Win32 Windows 7 / 8 / 10 (NT 6.x) apps work too?

Just wondering because it appears users on the forums are making a big deal about how LibreOffice is dropping support for XP.

[Kendji]

Would be nice if you could play games on it

[cl333r]

Gotcha, I'll wait a bit longer then (...)

Please do, ReactOS is a very quickly developing project, it's been worked on for only 19 years.