[ubuntu-uk] React OS- Virtual Box

Kris Douglas webbox.uk at gmail.com
Fri Jun 20 13:12:06 BST 2008


On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Javad Ayaz <javadayaz at gmail.com> wrote:
> so theoretically i should be able to run a windows only app on rOS without
> much fuss?
>
> On 20/06/2008, Kris Douglas <webbox.uk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Javad Ayaz <javadayaz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > i will post my findings on here later on for everyones benefit!!!!
>> >
>> >
>> > On 20/06/2008, Michael Holloway <michael at thedarkwinter.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Does anyone know how well this works? I think i tried it ages ago
>> >> (might
>> >> have been a different [clone]) but it was very very alpha at the time.
>> >>
>> >> I see that further down the page they say they will go into beta for
>> >> 0.5
>> >> (and they are current only 0.3.4), so i doubt that its very stable at
>> >> all.
>> >>
>> >> Javad, please let us/me know how you get on with it :)
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 08:01 +0100, Javad Ayaz wrote:
>> >> > Hi,
>> >> >
>> >> > Im just wondering if i will able to run this on virtualbox in Ubuntu?
>> >> >
>> >> > http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html
>> >> >
>> >> > I think this is a replica windows os .....so if there are any must
>> >> > have apps that you have to use in windows can now be used in this!!!
>> >> >
>> >> > Thoughts?
>> >> >
>> >> > Regards
>> >> >
>> >> > Javad
>> >>
>> >>
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>>
>> rOS is actually fairly stable for some apps, but overall, it's not a
>> production OS, and It doesn't really run any software that doesn't run
>> on Wine or native Linux better...
>>
>> The basic idea of rOS is to replace a whole Linux distro running wine,
>> with something that can run Windows apps natively but is freely
>> available, standalone and small.
>>
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Any app that is stable in wine... _should_... be stable in rOS.

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