Sep

6

ReactOS Revisited Part 2 (ReactOS 3.0)

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Ok, so with 3.0 there are still some major reliability issues. I blue screened a bunch of times just trying to get to this blog and it was quite slow. However, it did seem to work a bit better than 2.9. I will be testing installing some Windows programs to see just how far they have come. Pretty soon I’ll be able to be free of Windows. The funky-looking page has to do with the size of my ReactOS screen vs the size I normally view my blog at. Apologies for those with crappy screen resolutions who see something like this.

  

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Sep

6

ReactOS Revisited Part 1

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I decided to revisit ReactOS to see what had changed from 2.x that I reviewd before to the 2.9 release candidate. So I fired up VMWare and ran it. I was a bit dissapointed in the performance. I know it was VMWared and only had 128 MB, but Ubuntu was running beautifully VMWared with only 192 MB of RAM. It kept blue screening whenever I tried to visit this blog, for example. However, they are making really great work at binary compatibility. As a test, I went to the Mozilla website and downloaded Firefox. It installed and ran pretty well.

This was going to be my only review of ReactOS, but when I went to their site, I saw that 3.0 was out and it wouldn’t be fair for me to say how unstable it was if they had fixed that. So stay tuned!

  

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