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They finished the clean up, thus no mention. Whether their was pirated code is unknown and pure speculation.

NT5 is the code base for 2000, XP and Vista. If you stick to NT5 you'll get a good system.

Actually Vista is officially using the NT 6.0 kernel, although rumour has it SP1 will up that to NT 6.1 to come in line with Server 2008.

Yes, but Vista is a thing to avoid wherever and whenever possible.

Cheeky... but very funny.

Thanks a lot, I spat hot coffee all over my knees, keyboard and screen

That is the challenge.

Anyway, you don't need to be as devoted as they seem to be, but you can let yourself see they are doing a great job to achieve their chosen goal, even if you did not find it interesting.

"It's a shame. If they were to simply make a good OS on the NT model, and then try to emulate Windows, they might have a chance of making a viable OS. However, by instead trying to chase down every Windows release as it comes out, they're a team of tens trying to reverse-engineer the work of thousands."

Its a good job they are building on work done for many years by the Wine team...for years, and I suspect an awful lot of code will be used from other places as well. They already have a lot working.

You must be blind.

If you take a look at the right column on the front page, you will see a box which says:

ReactOS Auditing

99.5% complete

For further information on the audit status, please visit the related ReactOS-Wiki page.

I even have a screenshot, made just for you
http://www.uploadgeek.com/uploads456/1/reactos-frontpage-auditing.p...

There never was pirated code in ReactOS. So far none is found, and there is only 0.5% to go. It is unlikely that the unproven claims would be proved by the last remaining 49 files.

FreeWin95 has little to do with ReactOS except for the wish to recreate Windows API. ReactOS is coming nicely along and has a quite nice compatibility already. They can pull it off. They are not trying to be ahead of Microsoft. They are trying to create an open Windows system for those who don't want to buy expensive hardware to run the newest buggy release from Microsoft.

They are trying to create an open Windows system


Well, IMO it's stupid to try to create a open windows clone if you just end up running propietary drivers. Not that reactos isn't awesome despite of that....

I don't know about that. If you have proprietary drivers that work, but have an OS that is no longer supported by the company behind it... well, suddenly it's not so stupid.

Besides that, there are open drivers as well (ext2fs drivers and some other fs-drivers in more or less working state).

I disagree.

If ReactOS gets good enough to be able to run most Win32 binaries, then I would run it virtualized under Linux in a few years time in order to maintain legacy applications.

If it catches a virus, no biggie ... just wipe, rinse and restore from an image.

ReactOS virtualized under Linux could potentially become an ideal way to maintain support for legacy, binary, Windows-only cruft that you may find that you still need to keep running.

you can use wine too for that purpose

ReactOS virtualized under Linux

Why???!! Reactos is the best hope to ditch both Windows and Linux, so if you ever want virtualization, run Linux on top of Reactos, but not the other way around! (Unless you're a sysadmin)

LOL that screenshot was classic!

"...newest buggy release from Microsoft."

Just wait and see how bug-free ReactOS will be when it is finally released, if ever.
I doubt you will be satisfied with its quality.

Out of pure curiosity I ask: Why is that? What would make ReactOS so unstable and inconsistent that it would dissatisfy me? Would it give me as many BSODs as NT4 did? Win2K and Win2K3 are much better than NT4, but lacks consistency in the interface.

Considering the amount of bugs in GNU/Linux, *BSD, Windows 2K/XP/2K3 and pretty much all software only poor performance and lack of stability can dissatisfy me. But I doubt that ReactOS 1.0 will have poor performance and low level of stability. FLOSS software generally don't reach the 1.0-milestone without having good performance and stability. Gnome 1.0 was an exception to that rule (as stable as windows 3.x).

Linux, for example, took quite some time to "get there", and that is just a kernel. Windows is much more than that - It is a kernel, a graphical subsystem, other built-in applications etc.

I am currently using KDE 3.5.7, and I can still find fixed use-cases which cause software to crash.
Bug-free certainly isn't the highlight when it comes to open source software. QA and bug fixing are simply not as fun as implementing new features.

... ?

What is it with you and wanting to stir the s**t? Do you really want everybody to ignore your comments or shoot you down the minute you come out with one?

Personally, I think the project rocks. I don't see a problem with somebody trying to recreate a system from scratch.

What's the big deal? You don't like the fact that somebody is trying to create a better OS than MS? That makes no sense.

Surely, if your a fan of MS software, you want MS to give they're best? Don't tell me MS is going to do that without some form of competition?

Well, if moulinneuf and Oliver can stir the s**t from a GPL and a BSD-POV then Almafeta can stir the s**t from a Windows POV

But I don't grasp why he wants to be in that group...

LOL! Neither do I.

It's nice that this site has most of the trolls under control and although I don't consider Almafeta one, yet, it's still nice to be able give them a kick in the teeth no matter which side of the fence they're from. ;-)

As for ReactOS, this project is making some serious headway. I downloaded the latest release and am seriously impressed. It seems to have sped up and become allot more responsive.

Nice work ReactOS team.

It's a shame. If they were to simply make a good OS on the NT model, and then try to emulate Windows, they might have a chance of making a viable OS. However, by instead trying to chase down every Windows release as it comes out, they're a team of tens trying to reverse-engineer the work of thousands.
Why should they try to make a new OS which has no market and then *try* to emulate Windows instead of making a Windows-compatible OS which instantly gains the biggest software base in the world? Your logic is beyond me.

Thanks to something called "backward compatibility" and something called "stable API", you usually don't need latest Windows to use its software, unless specifically designed for latest version of OS.

Being a generation behind official Windows (like being XP-compatible in the era of Vista) would be a great achievement for ReactOS.

If you favorite winapps are not new ones, it might work. Otherwise, ReactOS is similar to Mono, because both try to be compatible with someone who is constantly changing the rules of the game.

Nope, you're not the only one. I can't stand the Tango icons. They're flat-out ugly.

Opinion alert: Don't take this as fact.

No, it is a fact, Tango icons are ugly.

Crystal is ugly too, If they were going to emulate Windows, they should have used Windows look-a-like icons too.

Tango is ugly and Crystal is, well, a bit over done.

There's always Oxygen of course, which is shaping up to be a good iconset.

"Am I the only one to think the Tango icons are a tad bland?"

Probably not but I like their "blandness". On the other hand absolutely cant stand the Crystal gloss.

Aah yeah, well. There are several variations of the Crystal icons. I dislike Crystal Clear very much, but Crystal SVG is nicer. The older versions are generally horrible, but there are some new versions which are quite nice.

The "Crystal Project" I was thinking of, is this one:
http://www.everaldo.com/crystal/?action=preview

A bit too much gloss but nothing like the older Crystal styles. Much more mac-like - more photorealistic than actually glossy.

Something between Crystal and Tango would look so sweeeeeeeet (said with really cute high-pitched voice a la Leela).

In Gnome I use Tango icons but that's because it works fine with my slightly extra-coloured fancy theme. In Windows (or in Gnome with an old-fashioned theme) the newer Crystal icons would probably do juuuuuuust fine. I think.

Okay, I'm officially babbling now

BTW: Danes only drinking on occasion. Of course we have an occasion for every day

So do we Irish. There is no excuse needed for a good drink, but it's nice to have one. ;-)

Yeah, I like the Crystal icon set, although it is a bit glossy for me.

Oxygen now, that would be sweet!

"The "Crystal Project" I was thinking of, is this one: "

Ehh..I dunno. It doesn't do it for me. I also really dislike "photorealistic" icons (like the hard disk icon in that set). It's an icon, it should symbolize something, not be an accurate depiction of that something.

"BTW: Danes only drinking on occasion. Of course we have an occasion for every day "

Drinking in itself is an occasion
I remember the Danish DHL office having their lunchroom fridge stacked with alcohol. That seemed quite odd to a swede.

It's quite amusing that something as irrelevant and easily changed as the choice of icon set is the topic that causes the biggest discussion. I guess compaining about something technical and relevant would require too much knowledge and effort, and after all you do have to complain about _something_.

(Much like me complaining about people posting complaints)

Hey, I wasn't complaining about the icons. And if you see my other posts, you'll see I've got a quite positive attitude towards ReactOS.

You're forgiven

Well, supposedly Vista STILL isn't needed because DX10 really makes no difference...

Well, the Tango icons are better than the ugly blend of Win 3.1, Win95, Win98, Win2K and Win XP icons found in pre-Vista Windows

Despite ReactOS being in an early state it is quite consistent in its UI, even in regard to translations. In terms of localisation ReactOS is already ahead of Windows

Will msstyles be supported in ReactOS or will you stick to the classical Windows look (not a bad choice, IMHO) ?

Sounds good. ReactOS is getting sexier for each release.

I hope msstyles will perform better in ReactOS than in Wine, though.

>We do not expect any fancy things from this os, we just want out apps to run on this OS! and we never have to use Vista and windows XP again!

Hear hear! I have one box still running windows because of the apps, and when Reactos goes beta, I'm installing it.
(Linux's one task, one app approach is ok, but some things are just easier to do when you have one app that does everything you need to do, instead of switching between various apps to do the same job.)

wow, I would never have guessed someone who read osnews could be so clueless about XP. Pretty much everything you said is inaccurate.

Are these design flaws in Windows reflected in the API, or internal? If internal, the new code could be better than the old. ReactOS could end up a better Windows than Windows.