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  15      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  23       <div class="title">ReactOS Windows clone - nice free software</div>
  24       <div class="date"> 1st April 2014</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>Microsoft have announced that Windows XP reaches its end of life
  26 2014-04-08, in 7 days.  But there are heaps of machines still running
  27 Windows XP, and depending on Windows XP to run their applications, and
  28 upgrading will be expensive, both when it comes to money and when it
  29 comes to the amount of effort needed to migrate from Windows XP to a
  30 new operating system.  Some obvious options (buy new a Windows
  31 machine, buy a MacOSX machine, install Linux on the existing machine)
  32 are already well known and covered elsewhere.  Most of them involve
  33 leaving the user applications installed on Windows XP behind and
  34 trying out replacements or updated versions. In this blog post I want
  35 to mention one strange bird that allow people to keep the hardware and
  36 the existing Windows XP applications and run them on a free software
  37 operating system that is Windows XP compatible.</p>
  38
  39 <p><a href="http://www.reactos.org/">ReactOS</a> is a free software
  40 operating system (GNU GPL licensed) working on providing a operating
  41 system that is binary compatible with Windows, able to run windows
  42 programs directly and to use Windows drivers for hardware directly.
  43 The project goal is for Windows user to keep their existing machines,
  44 drivers and software, and gain the advantages from user a operating
  45 system without usage limitations caused by non-free licensing.  It is
  46 a Windows clone running directly on the hardware, so quite different
  47 from the approach taken by <a href="http://www.winehq.org/">the Wine
  48 project</a>, which make it possible to run Windows binaries on
  49 Linux.</p>
  50
  51 <p>The ReactOS project share code with the Wine project, so most
  52 shared libraries available on Windows are already implemented already.
  53 There is also a software manager like the one we are used to on Linux,
  54 allowing the user to install free software applications with a simple
  55 click directly from the Internet.  Check out the
  56 <a href="http://www.reactos.org/screenshots">screen shots on the
  57 project web site</a> for an idea what it look like (it looks just like
  58 Windows before metro).</p>
  59
  60 <p>I do not use ReactOS myself, preferring Linux and Unix like
  61 operating systems.  I've tested it, and it work fine in a virt-manager
  62 virtual machine.  The browser, minesweeper, notepad etc is working
  63 fine as far as I can tell.  Unfortunately, my main test application
  64 is the software included on a CD with the Lego Mindstorms NXT, which
  65 seem to install just fine from CD but fail to leave any binaries on
  66 the disk after the installation.  So no luck with that test software.
  67 No idea why, but hope someone else figure out and fix the problem.
  68 I've tried the ReactOS Live ISO on a physical machine, and it seemed
  69 to work just fine.  If you like Windows and want to keep running your
  70 old Windows binaries, check it out by
  71 <a href="http://www.reactos.org/download">downloading</a> the
  72 installation CD, the live CD or the preinstalled virtual machine
  73 image.</p>
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  76       <div class="tags">Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nice free software">nice free software</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/reactos">reactos</a>.</div>
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