![]() ![]() Thanks for reading! You can check out more of this blog or my YouTube channel. Sometimes slow an unstable, mostly depending on the apps.Generic video drivers are slow and support no advanced features General Information Used Build Environment: ReactOS Build Environment '2.1.2 - GCC 4.7.2 - Unix' was used for official release supported toolchains: GCC 4.7.2 dbg+rls (primary toolchain) used in Windows RosBE 2.1.6, and Unix RosBE 2.1.2 MSVC 2010 dbg+rls used in combination with Windows RosBE 2.1.Sound is not working (Windows drivers don’t work).a team of developers, ros-general at reactos dot com. USB is still not working (USB storage, mouse, etc) but there exists a patch with USB support that should be added into the main releases in the futureĮdit: you can find vgal’s USB patches here on his Russian blog and it should enable to boot from USB drive: As of version 0.4.9 BareMetal OS officially supports multiple processors, memory management.I believe the system stability has been improved over the previous version 0.4.9 because I did not get any OS crashes expect for incompatible drivers.Some apps that worked: 7zip, Wordpad, Excel viewer, CPU-Z, Firefox 48, Opera, Opensonic, SimCity 3000, Pingus, etc.App-manager is included with a range of free preselected and compatible Windows apps just like in Linux (requires Internet).Ethernet is working now but required some hands on magic to activate the drivers without crashing the OS (and I forgot the exact steps that it took me). ![]() Basics like screen, keyboard, TrackPoint, DVD work fine.Old version, no longer supported: 0.4.9,, ReactOS is (again). Compatible with some Windows drivers and apps (trial and error so far) ReactOS 0.3.1 desktop: left Start Menu and right ReactOSs own File Explorer.Gone are the days of waiting for checkdisk after a crash. Fast install and boot with no problems using default settings and the Btrfs file system that is much more robust than the outdated FAT32 format in ROS 0.4.9.5 6 ReactOS has been noted as a potential open-source drop-in replacement 7 8 9 and for its information on 10 ReactOS has been in development since 1996. Let me summarize my experience, some of the pros are: free and open-source binary-compatible and later versions of Microsoft Windows. Playing YouTube videos on ROS 0.4.10 in FF48 (a bit slow and screen tearing) The included app-manager had some free Windows software available like Firefox 48, Opera, LibreOffice or Diablo II if you have an Internet connection. How do you get your standard Windows drivers on the system? Burning a driver CD with Ethernet, video and audio drivers had to do the job. To start our journey you have to visit and download the latest iso file (just a bit over 100MB) and burn it unto a CD because there is no official USB boot support yet. This T430 is more modern and has a Core i7 3610QM, 16 GB RAM and the Intel HD 4000 iGPU. Brought to you by: colinfinck, fireballrus, gedmurphy, jhenze, thfabba. Will ReactOS eventually more successful than Linux in conquering the desktop? ROS 0.4.10 running on a ThinkPad T430Ĭheck out my test with ROS on an older ThinkPad T23 and ROS 0.4.9 on a T430s as well. ReactOS An operating system based on the best Windows NT design principles Status: Alpha. It is in alpha stage for decades now but is making steady progress in the last years. ReactOS is a Windows compatible OS that is supposed to eventually replace the original. ![]()
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