Comments on: It works! Sort of … http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/it-works-sort-of/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Haiku alpha: Wow. Just wow. « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/it-works-sort-of/#comment-40432 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:25:17 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/it-works-sort-of/#comment-40432 [...] I got riled up about five months ago because ReactOS, the wannabe Windows mimic, was making strides toward actual usability. So you can imagine my excitement after trying the Haiku OS alpha, and getting this on my [...]

]]> By: James http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/it-works-sort-of/#comment-39260 Mon, 04 May 2009 08:16:13 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/it-works-sort-of/#comment-39260 ReactOS shares quite a bit of code with Wine, yes. That’s not really where it has major issues right now, though.

For example, both USB support and the network stack need lots of love. Additionally, the last build I used required a reboot to change the resolution.

Alas, ReactOS is pretty much less functional than early betas of Windows 95 right now. Even opening the file manager in the wrong way can cause a crash. :-P

]]> By: wakizaki http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/it-works-sort-of/#comment-39254 Mon, 04 May 2009 06:25:20 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/it-works-sort-of/#comment-39254 ReactOS is based on Wine, and we all know that Wine still has some ways to go, so no big surprise there.

]]> By: L4Linux http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/it-works-sort-of/#comment-39253 Mon, 04 May 2009 05:18:02 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/it-works-sort-of/#comment-39253 “Add to that the fact that nothing aside from the touchpad, the video and the hard drives seem to work — no wireless network, no PCMCIA, no audio, no USB, etc., etc. — and it’s not exactly functional for me.”

That sounds exactly like a fresh install of windows, before you put 3-4 hours of work to get everything installed and working!
Ubuntu Easy Peasy took me only 1 hour in a totally underpowered notebook and I only had to make about 10 clicks.
Good job. Now make some good BSOD, DRM and “genuine advantage” and ReactOS is ready to go mainstream!!

]]> By: Links 03/05/2009: Fedora Classroom Today, Palm to Enter Sub-notebooks? | Boycott Novell http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/it-works-sort-of/#comment-39252 Mon, 04 May 2009 01:11:53 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/it-works-sort-of/#comment-39252 [...] It works! Sort of … On a whim, I installed the latest pre-release release of ReactOS today. I tried it a long time ago and had no luck whatsoever — black screens, nonbooting or just generalized irregular behavior — and so I rarely give it a thought. [...]

]]> By: zenfunk http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/it-works-sort-of/#comment-39249 Sun, 03 May 2009 19:49:01 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/it-works-sort-of/#comment-39249 “Add to that the fact that nothing aside from the touchpad, the video and the hard drives seem to work — no wireless network, no PCMCIA, no audio, no USB, etc., etc. — and it’s not exactly functional for me. I’d show a screenshot, but I’m at a loss for a way to get the image off the machine.”

That pretty much sums up what’s implemented by now. Wired network and USB stack seem to be under heavy development but far from being reliable.
Sound worked sorta in their newest release for the first time. Also far from stable.
Nevertheless, reimplementing the Windows operating system- what a task. Kudos to the developers – keep it up.

Imagine this:
If reactos would have been sort of usable when vista came out and would have gotten some backing by the big players (ibm etc.) this would have given Microsoft a pretty good shake.

XP out of service, vista rubbish and reactos compatible to the old and trusty xp. Who would have had the need to buy a Microsoft OS ever again?

]]> By: eksith http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/it-works-sort-of/#comment-39248 Sun, 03 May 2009 17:17:03 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/it-works-sort-of/#comment-39248 Some fruit, but ReactOS has a looooong way to go to come close to Windows.

I’m not quite sure if that’s really a worthy goal at this point. If they can somehow match compatibility while making it completely new, then that’s something.

]]> By: kevin http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/it-works-sort-of/#comment-39247 Sun, 03 May 2009 15:42:21 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/it-works-sort-of/#comment-39247 What is “cycle perfect imitation of windows”?

By the way I’ve been reading your blog for about a month now and really enjoy it. You’ve just about motivated me to dig out an old machine and see how much I can do on command line, as I use LaTeX for documents right now anyway. It might be good for my productivity as I couldn’t browse the web quite like I do right now (recently made the switch on my dual boot machine to primarily using Xubuntu though I’ve got some older machines my kids use with puppy on them and I’ve been playing with Slitaz lately as well). My newest machine is a P4 2.2, 768MB of RAM, 40GB HDD and a new video card w/128MB of RAM (I used to have 368MB and on board video a month ago, but google earth was not working so well).

Cheers,

Kevin

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