I spent the day running what feels like to me as one of the weirdest Operating Systems on the planet: ReactOS. A few days ago I started out on a quest to use as many Open Source (but not Linux) ...

If you want to run a clone of Microsoft Windows to escape the drama of upgrading to Windows 10, try ReactOS — but do not expect it to be a fully functional replacement any time soon. ReactOS is a free ...

I spent a weekend using a version of Windows that isn't Windows—an operating system that runs Windows programs but contains zero Microsoft code. ReactOS has been in development since 1998, with ...

When picking operating systems for a closer look here in the Daily Drivers series, the aim has not been to merely pick the next well-known Linux distro off the pile, but to try out the interesting, ...

Hypervisors like VirtualBox or VMware can run just about any OS as long as you've got enough hardware power. However, just ...

This is perhaps one of the most Windows-like distribution of Linux. It is somewhat a replica of Windows 7, with the Start menu, Taskbar, etc. The speed of the OS distribution is appreciable. Zorin OS ...

News briefs for March 4, 2019. Linux kernel 5.0 is out. Linus writes, "We have more than a handful of real fixes in the last week, but not enough to make me go "Hmm, things are really unstable". In ...

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ReactOS is an implementation of Windows Server 2003, still in alpha stage, and very interesting. But it is no threat to Windows. None at all. Especially compared with Linux. Here's why. Sponsors.

In the crowd of GNU/Linux and BSD users that throng our community, it’s easy to forget that those two families are not the only games in the open-source operating system town. One we’ve casually kept ...

News briefs for November 6, 2018. VMware has acquired Heptio, which was founded by Joe Beda and Craig McLuckie, two of the creators of Kubernetes. TechCrunch reports that the terms of the deal aren't ...