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  14      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  21     <h3>Entries tagged "reactos".</h3>
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  25         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ReactOS_Windows_clone___nice_free_software.html">ReactOS Windows clone - nice free software</a>
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  28          1st April 2014
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  31         <p>Microsoft have announced that Windows XP reaches its end of life
  32 2014-04-08, in 7 days.  But there are heaps of machines still running
  33 Windows XP, and depending on Windows XP to run their applications, and
  34 upgrading will be expensive, both when it comes to money and when it
  35 comes to the amount of effort needed to migrate from Windows XP to a
  36 new operating system.  Some obvious options (buy new a Windows
  37 machine, buy a MacOSX machine, install Linux on the existing machine)
  38 are already well known and covered elsewhere.  Most of them involve
  39 leaving the user applications installed on Windows XP behind and
  40 trying out replacements or updated versions. In this blog post I want
  41 to mention one strange bird that allow people to keep the hardware and
  42 the existing Windows XP applications and run them on a free software
  43 operating system that is Windows XP compatible.</p>
  44
  45 <p><a href="http://www.reactos.org/">ReactOS</a> is a free software
  46 operating system (GNU GPL licensed) working on providing a operating
  47 system that is binary compatible with Windows, able to run windows
  48 programs directly and to use Windows drivers for hardware directly.
  49 The project goal is for Windows user to keep their existing machines,
  50 drivers and software, and gain the advantages from user a operating
  51 system without usage limitations caused by non-free licensing.  It is
  52 a Windows clone running directly on the hardware, so quite different
  53 from the approach taken by <a href="http://www.winehq.org/">the Wine
  54 project</a>, which make it possible to run Windows binaries on
  55 Linux.</p>
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  57 <p>The ReactOS project share code with the Wine project, so most
  58 shared libraries available on Windows are already implemented already.
  59 There is also a software manager like the one we are used to on Linux,
  60 allowing the user to install free software applications with a simple
  61 click directly from the Internet.  Check out the
  62 <a href="http://www.reactos.org/screenshots">screen shots on the
  63 project web site</a> for an idea what it look like (it looks just like
  64 Windows before metro).</p>
  65
  66 <p>I do not use ReactOS myself, preferring Linux and Unix like
  67 operating systems.  I've tested it, and it work fine in a virt-manager
  68 virtual machine.  The browser, minesweeper, notepad etc is working
  69 fine as far as I can tell.  Unfortunately, my main test application
  70 is the software included on a CD with the Lego Mindstorms NXT, which
  71 seem to install just fine from CD but fail to leave any binaries on
  72 the disk after the installation.  So no luck with that test software.
  73 No idea why, but hope someone else figure out and fix the problem.
  74 I've tried the ReactOS Live ISO on a physical machine, and it seemed
  75 to work just fine.  If you like Windows and want to keep running your
  76 old Windows binaries, check it out by
  77 <a href="http://www.reactos.org/download">downloading</a> the
  78 installation CD, the live CD or the preinstalled virtual machine
  79 image.</p>
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