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 ...

ReactOS is an open source operating system designed to be compatible with Windows applications. It’s been in development for more than two decades and is still very much work-in-progress software, but ...

ReactOS is a free and open source operating system designed to be compatible with Windows software and drivers. While it’s been under active development since 1999, the operating system is still ...

A few months ago I tried out an up and coming open source operating system called ReactOS. At the time, I hadn't heard of the project but I thought it was worth checking out because it was said to be ...

A few weeks ago I wrote about Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and noted that “Microsoft’s RDP client, Remote Desktop Connection Client 2.1 doesn’t support OS X 10.7 or later.” … an observation to which ...

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 ...

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.

If you are looking for a Windows alternative, there have been quite a few that have popped up over the years. In our Look Back column, we revisited some of these like Corel Linux, BeOS, and Lindows.

The ReactOS project is celebrating its 30th birthday. The first commit to the ReactOS source code was made at the end of January 1996. In a blog post, the current project maintainers are honoring the ...

Two decades in, still no version 1.0.

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) ...