From: Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressuregmail.com)
Date: Sun Jul 23 2006 - 16:20:12 CDT

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On 7/22/06, wac wrote:
> I would use ReactOS in that case ;) ---------------> www.reactos.com
> The alpha 0.3.0 rc1 is already there waiting for the download yep an alpha
> but then that is what win98 always was, a badly designed alpha putted on the
> market with rush to produce money at the expense of a lot of data
> destruction. Fortunately later m$ paid that with some degreee of credibility
> loss. Anyway if an alpha is not enought for you the MAKE IT BETA ;) you have
> the sourcecode ready to play with.

ReactOS is a clone of Windows NT/2000/XP, not of 9x/ME. ReactOS is one
option for someone migrating away from Windows 9x, but it's just as
different from 9x as is NT/2000/XP. It will run Windows 9x programs,
as will NT/2000/XP--but it is not a natural replacement for Windows
9x. One would probably have better luck migrating to a Linux distro
and running 9x programs with Wine (which shares a lot of code with
ReactOS, and which has a very mature codebase for executing Win3.x and
Win9x programs). There are lots of stable Linux distributions and Wine
is stable--ReactOS is not, yet.

-Eliah

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