That’s as simple to verify as Julliard told in his interview: ask a few questions, and you see if the guy really developed the code, or he copy-pasted from leaked source code.Īs for reverse-engineering: This is a very interesting topic. And people who I don’t trust will never get commit-access or their patches commited. And every developer in my team clearly udnerstands, that if he starts using leaked source code even for studying, that will eventually ruin the project. Not because it’s greatly confusing, but because you dare to provide links and quotes from that provocation we had in January.Īs a project leader, I officialy state, and will state again and again when it’s needed and in question: ReactOS NEVER UTILISED ILLEGALY OBTAINED source code (like Windows NT 4 or 2000 “leaked” source code). I’m really sorry I was pointed out to your post by our developers. Let’s wait and see if the following like ever gets updated: So back to our story, I thought, why worry about my reverse engineering? Some of us have done much worse.” ![]() As for XXXXX, last I know he attempted to get the NT4 source compiling, a feat which I had tried as well. I do not think that nor XXXXX nor I did anything wrong: he only gleaned through some files and quite probably did not learn anything useful, and the only code I looked at were some libraries which I do not touch: In the end, he realized that doing this was wrong, and he deleted his copy. XXXXX then told me he was interested about looking at the DCOM source code, document it, and then help WINE out with it, all while taking a 6 month leave to do so. “Likewise, I joked with XXXXX about funny comments in some win32 DLL source code which I knew I would never implement. “I post here a mail which Alex has sent to the ‘inner circle’ of ReactOS.” This error occurred as I tried to get the app manager to download its database.I refer you to the deleted message, which I have the contents of: To any of us that used Windows in the late 90's, early 2000's, this will look immensely familiar.Īnd here's where I stopped my exploration. Here's where I selected the ISO image as an optical drive.īlast-from-the-past the installer felt just like it did in 2001.Īnd this is how it looks once booted. Before booting I used the device manager to attach the ISO image as an optical drive. The choices are a bit tricky, since ReactOS is not Windows, it's not Linux, it's a kind of Other. Start installing in VirtualBox in this window. Zorin, at the current moment, is a better Windows alternative than ReactOS but of course that may change. In that case it is clearly a Linux with a somewhat Windows-like skin, and an excellent integration of Wine support. I did recently install ZorinOS since it, too, offers a credible environment for installing Windows applications. I've been there, done that, and have a strong preference for other kinds of OS's. On the other hand, I'm not one to use the word "Awesome" at the prospect of using old-school Windows, or for that matter any version of Windows. Of course they're relying on the over 20 years of development which has gone into the Wine project. On the one hand, it's awesome that the team has managed to get this far, to create a credible implementation of MS Windows with no Windows code of any kind. ![]() Under the covers it uses a number of open source libraries - the primary of course being Wine. In my case that program was unable to update its database and therefore show or install applications, in the video below you see that the application manager does work and they have several app's available. There is an Application Manager that comes installed. No equivalent to Internet Explorer however, meaning there is no bundled web browser. It comes bundled with a similar set of accessories and games - Wordpad, Paint, Solitaire, etc. Once installed ReactOS looks and behaves exactly like Windows did with WinXP. Need to use older software that no longer runs on modern Windows.Preference for the Windows environment, but concerned about Microsoft's spying tendencies.Going between my experience and what's shown in the video, ReactOS looks impressive but it is flaky. In the video below, he used the ReactOS application manager to install some applications including Firefox, and even Adobe Photoshop 5.5. In my case I was unable to install software like Firefox. Like him, I installed ReactOS in VirtualBox and attempted to try it out. Attached to the bottom of this post is a video review from a chap who had more success than I did.
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