@WeirdWriter Hi Robert, good question & one I don't know offhand (if anyone does, please share!) Looking on https://reactos.org/faq/#can-i-install-reactos-and-run-any-software-compatible-with-windows-on-it I found "Can I install ReactOS and run any software compatible with Windows on it?
Probably yes. However we highly recommend to check first if your favourite app runs in ReactOS. ReactOS is still an on-going project and not all the apps and drivers runs perfect on it."

Are any of our #FOSS / #Linux friends involved in #ReactOS able to share experiences please?

@DeltaLima i did not know #ReactOS just had a release.

@heiseonline
Ich benoetige Wintendo nur fuer einen Zweck: Adobe E Editions um meine Bubliotheks E-Books im ePub-Format zu bekommen. Vielleicht waere #ReactOS eine leichtere und offenere Alternative hier zu #Windows 10?

Hat jemand Erfahrungen damit?

@liaizon @rtn @delta
Here is a #ReactOS running in v86Emu #WebXDC. Chatting over telnet with @hpk running netcat in @alpinelinux on the other side.

@zdfheute we call it today #reactos

Some folks think I am some sort of #Linux worship fiend.

Nothing further from the truth; I simply admire that, in an age of near absolute #enshittification of most commercial software, the whole #FOSS thing seems to prove itself, time and time again, as a process (community created, refined and supported) that generates Things That Work. Because their objective IS to make it work, not generate "value for shareholders" and help CEOs buy their fifth yacht.

I have oodles and buckets of things to pick at, regarding Linux. Monolithic kernel?? Really?? What is this, 1960s? You manage memory HOW? Oh. The list goes on and on, don't get me started.

I was a serious enthusiast of the myriad of alternative OSes, in the Cambrian-like explosion of diversity of the 90s. So much diverse, curious, ingenious, brilliant solutions and notions! #BeOS, #OS2 #QNX (ok, 1980s), #Plan9OS, #ReactOS, to name a few out of so, so many other great Alt OSs of the time...

Compared to those, Linux seemed to actually freeze and stall evolution, sticking to the limitations of the vision by Torvalds (sorry, man, it's true, plenty of admiration for the guy, but dropped the ball on that kernel) at the time of its inception.

However, being the mainstay of FOSS, I use it, champion it, and defend it against ANYTHING commercial.

Until someone truly resurrects BeOS (eeeeh #Haiku ... eh....) lol

There.

/rant

Looks like that there is kinda 'magic mark' around 50 days #uptime #reactos