This article is incredibly biased. In truth, reactos is worlds behind wine and linux. It paints a nice picture of a future possibility but its just that... Its not in any way anyhow ready to be a drop in replacement for windows.
(Which is its future intended use)
Its a nice idea, an ideal that is much harder to make real than most people imagine. M$ has thousands, no tens of thousands of developers. Reactos has just a very few really active developers.
Last I tried it the gui is severely lacking in even the most basic functions. The gui didn't even have moveable icons last I checked. This most basic feature is only planned for 1.0. Its a hobby OS. Look I'm running doom for windows without windows. A nice idea but functionally, its not quite ready for anyone but future developers.
On the hobby front, nice hack but if its 10+ years behind current windows, its not much good to anyone but real nerds.
A big part of me hopes they succeed though. I think it would be awesome if they did. Imagine a big undergound of windows users ****ing the man. Yeah thats the good part of the concept. Hope it works...
Steven
