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ReactOS

From Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.misc
Subject ReactOS
Date 2026-05-05 00:59 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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So the project to create a full-on Windows workalike continues
<https://www.zdnet.com/article/reactos-will-soon-be-much-easier-to-install/>.

But it seems to me, if you create a full OS, then you bear the burden
of reimplementing all the hardware support yourself. Whereas if you
use something like WINE, that implements enough of the Windows APIs to
run the userland apps, which is surely all that most people would care
about. Since it is layered on top of an OS like Linux, it can leave
all the actual hardware support (and filesystem implementation,
network stacks etc) to that host OS, and save itself a lot of work.

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ReactOS Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-05-05 00:59 +0000
  Re: ReactOS John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2026-05-05 07:53 -0700
    Re: ReactOS Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-05-05 22:51 +0000
      Re: ReactOS John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2026-05-06 08:22 -0700
        Re: ReactOS Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-05-06 21:17 +0000
          Re: ReactOS John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2026-05-06 14:49 -0700
            Re: ReactOS Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-05-07 02:46 +0000
              Re: ReactOS John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2026-05-07 08:03 -0700
                Re: ReactOS Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-05-07 21:34 +0000
                Re: ReactOS John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2026-05-07 14:41 -0700

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