Having followed this project for around a decade, it amazes how slow it is being developed compared to Haiku.<p>On the surface it looks like windows 2000, but as soon as you try and do anything useful, you bump into problems. Firefox hangs the system when loading. Fonts don't always draw correctly. LOTS of things are missing. Quite often i press a button on a dialog, and it does nothing - why was is it even enabled if it doesn't work?<p>Still a long way to go!
I still don't understand the motivation for this project. If you ought to run a windows application, you use windows anyway. If you like to move to an opensource platform, you have to invest in migrating your applications anyway.<p>I don't get where ReactOS fits in this picture.<p>also how people can spend their precious time in re-implementing an existing architecture? There's lots of interesting and creative projects to actually build something new.
The second they launch a stable version I can use to replace windows XP embedded will be a real milestone.<p>Lots of plant touchscreens and industrial computers run a stripped down version of windows NT 3.51, win2k or XP (XP embedded is just a stripped down XP) which dont need any bells and whistles, just a solid network connection and the ability to run the win32 api. I have over 30 of these panel pc's around various factories running touch screen apps in place of explorer.exe so the desktop is not important to me and the demand is expanding all the time.<p>Thanks for the time and effort lads, I'm downloading it now to give it a go :-)