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Introducing ReactOS 0.4.16
(reactos.org)
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this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2026
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As I understand it, it's supposed to be a from-the-ground-up reimplementation of NT5 / Windows 2000 with maybe a handful of later tech squeezed in. Historically, it has borrowed heavily from the WINE project, though I'm not sure of the current state of play. It would certainly make sense to have continued to do so.
It's intended to be compatible with any and all Windows software, but the goalposts keep moving and the number of steps they are behind increases faster still. At this point it's barely more than a passion project for the devs, though many of us really want them to succeed.
(See also Haiku, which is a reimplementation and advancement of the contemporaneous BeOS.)
I've occasionally tried to get ReactOS to run in a VM for the nostalgia and to see something like the screenshots, but it never seems to work for me, not that I've tried this new version yet.
Thanks. Like the idea, bummer it's not more prime time ready
I too wish it was further ahead but when I think of the decades of duct tape MS has built around the NT kernel with horrors such as 95, Vista and 8 drivers, it makes sense that reverse engineering all that in a clean room is no easy feat. Their work certainly isn't wasted either.