![]() > operating system is used, such that people accustomed to the Additionally, the look and feel of the Windows > Windows® applications and drivers to run as they would on your > system which is binary compatible with Windows. > The main goal of the ReactOS® project is to provide an operating The issue is that ReactOS doesn't appear to promote software freedom Windows - run proprietary software - so I don't think that's the issue. Naturally GNU/Linux distros (including Trisquel) can do the same job as > and drivers meant for Windows is one of the stated goals of the Allowing people to continue using the proprietary software > ReactOS is meant as a free binary compatible replacement for I just noticed that ReactOS has entered the GNU Project's Common Distros As long as Google and Mozilla keep their GNU/Linux versions of their browsers up to speed with the Mac and Windows ones, the future looks bright. In summary, as more things move to the web (or cloud), the worry about what programs may or may not run is less of an issue. This is nice if you have a dual monitor setup and run GNU/Linux in one monitor and Windows in the other. They can only have the VM run the necessary programs and disconnect from the internet if necessary. Once again, the Steam client is non-free, but I have seen videos of someone using Photoshop on their Ubuntu machine through Stream.Ĩ.) If Windows XP support (or any Windows) is super critical, they can run a VM in VirtualBox on their GNU/Linux machine and isolate the environment. A user can edit a document or spreadsheet in real time on IE on Windows at the same time as a user in Ubuntu with Firefox and have no issues.ħ.) A little while back there was a demonstration of the Steam client for GNU/Linux being able to use Windows applications and games by "streaming" from a Windows box. ![]() While it is true that Google Docs is non-free, it will work the same on every browser regardless or platform. In an ideal world, these companies would settle on the OpenDocument format so users of Office and LibreOffice could work in harmony, but many are stuck in their old ways or don't know of the alternative(s).Ħ.) Some companies are moving to "the cloud" and moving to Google Docs instead of renewing their Office subscription. Since Microsoft didn't support the Strict doctype of their own specification until recently, even the "open xml" format is not truely open. You may never need to install Outlook and can access your email anywhere.ĥ.) For local document editing, corporations are still tied to Office and their formats, but LibreOffice can handle the binary and XML formats well. There's also Geary, but that project is a little immature.Ĥ.) If your company is tied to Outlook and/or Exchange, you can use the webmail version in the browsers offered in your GNU/Linux distro. Chrome/Chromium and Abrowser/Firefox on a GNU/Linux distro can access the same sites and playback the same media as their Mac OSX and Windows equivalents.Ģ.) Want to play audio and video even in the Windows Media and MP4 formats? VLC can play anything you throw at it and of course supported on GNU/Linux.ģ.) If local email is a priority, Thunderbird works the same as the Mac OSX and Windows equivalent and has excellent POP3 and IMAP support. Here is why.ġ.) The web browser is the most used program regardless of operating system. Especially if they are using an OS based off of Ubuntu. The average user (business or not) is much better off now using GNU/Linux instead of Windows than they were 10 years ago. The ReactOS uses its own kernel, compatible with the Windows NT architecture. It's developed by clean-room reverse-engineering, so the developers doesn't use any code or binaries from Microsoft, but some of the source code is shared with the Wine project. Nowadays, despite many fundraising efforts, ReactOS remains mainly a hobby project led by some few developers. Unlike GNU, the goal is to make a free replacement for Windows that's binary compatible with the already available software/drivers. Where the GNU project and Free Software Foundation aimed to develop a fully-free operating system, mimicking the Unix, there is ReactOS and the ReactOS Foundation. Because ReactOS wasn't ready for the time I moved away from Windows in favour for free software, I opted for Trisquel GNU/Linux instead, which I needed to wait 3 years to become usable with the release of version 4.0 in 2010 (that I still use on my older ThinkPad computer). ReactOS is in development since 1998, so there's no "great news" about this.
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