ReactOS 0.4.16 arrives with a graphical installer and a unified boot CD
After 18 months, ReactOS 0.4.16 is out, bringing a new graphical installer and a combined bootcd/livecd image. The release also improves video, audio, networking, and storage support, including fixes for Nvidia and AMD graphics, a new HD audio bus driver, a new ATA driver for broader hardware compatibility, and a Server Core installation type. It also syncs with Wine 10.0 and includes WineVDM for 16-bit app compatibility.
The mission for ReactOS is to “Run your favorite Windows applications and drivers in an open-source environment you can trust.”
- MisterTea
I do a lot of industrial automation and it is the one thing that keeps me boat-anchored to Windows. Every little programmable doodad like signal conditioners and temperature transmitters have their own USB programming cables and their own, mostly crappy windows config software. PLC software is another abomination, hopelessly Windows anchored, bloated GUI monsters, some built on top of Visual Studio (Beckhoff TwinCAT.)
I have donated to ReactOS in the past in the hopes of one day freeing myself from this hell.
- mysterydip
Looks like a lot of improvements on long-standing hard-to-find issues. Kudos to the team and thank you for providing an alternative OS that keeps getting better
- giancarlostoro
One of my favorite projects, maybe someday it can be a true daily driver, I wonder if that's the goal for 1.0 is to claim that they've gotten it stable enough to run as though it were Windows 7 or something to that effect.
- Aldipower
Love it! Haiku, ReactOS and sure Linux. But if necessary, the real art of computing can be kept up!
- montroser
Quite the dedication have these people!