ReactOS. A Windows OS? Part 2
So I decided to give it a try.I download the live CD, and I burn the ISO. I first tried it on my notebook, although it did not go very well, it went better than all my other attempts.after booting the life CD, I momentarily saw the desktop. Then as if my screen was in Etch-a-Sketch, a vertical line raced across my screen, leaving only a blue screen.
I was excited to see the desktop, if only for a moment. I attempted to reboot again. I rebooted four times. All with the same result. So I continue trying to boot other computers, none of my attempt worked.
With all my attempts, with a live CD. My notebook seem to be the best candidate for install. So I downloaded the install CD and ran on my notebook. I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised when it did not work.
After reading the comments from one of my readers, I realized that this OS was not meant for the normal everyday user. Although I should note that the designers are still at a beta stage. My hope is that at some point, the software will be usable for the end user. But after reading from their website, I fear they will never finish.
The reason I say this, is because they seem to be chasing Microsoft. It looks as if though they are planning to develop a Vista version before. They have finished with XP.
After spending some time on the Internet researching and chatting, it seems the only users are those developing the software itself or those developing drivers.
I really hope that in the future, this OS will be available and usable to the general public. I wish the developers the best of luck.
As always, I welcome all comments on the subject.
This is Alpha stage, not Beta… Beta versions are planned from 0.5.0 upwards.
Yes… we are aiming at XP compatibility, beacuse currently this is best choice… Final version developped from a long line of OSes.
And Vista… Vista is just a modded Win2k3 kernel with a handfull of new API`s and some updates to other subsystems.
And it seems you havent visted our forums nor out irc channel. There is already a great bunch of fanatics tagged along, compiling every new revision to check what`s new and changed:) to motivate our Devs into working harder…
Anyways, it`s been reported that ReactOS can be used for coding in Delphi, and not only that.
Of course we will never finish. After completing XP/Vista as well as Dx9/10 we will move on, to newer features. We want for example to make POSIX applications (this means Linux and not only) to be running on our system.
Can you imagine a Windows-compatible system, open source, fully moddable, that can also run linux, Skyos, Mac OS X, Solaris, Linux and BSD`s apps? All on one computer, on one system!
Can you ever call ANY OS finished? I doubt it…
I tried the live CD and my results were similar to yours…I did get a message telling me to stop so I did. I would have loved to try it.
I tried ReactOS and I could install it without any problems. I tried it once on my computer (Celeron 2.4 + 128 MB) and also on my new system using VMWare and it worked perfectly.
I think may be your downloaded build was broken or you had errors while downloading. Did you checksum the files you downloaded ?