[NCLUG] Hello all!

[Goodman,Darrin]

[snip]
I would be curious if anyone had played with ReactOS.

  http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html

It is MS-like, not Unix-like, and so not something that I personally
am interested in.
[/snip]

After briefly looking at the ReactOS website, even though they state on the homepage that it is a "ground-up implementation of a Microsoft Windows XP compatible operating system," after flipping through the tour of their OS, it sure looks pretty identical to a generic Linux distro.  There is even a screenshot of the Dillo web browser, which I believe is only available for Linux.  I wonder if they are billing the OS as being "compatible" to Win XP so that the average Windows user might be more inclined to try it; some might hear the word "Linux" and run the other way.  Not that I am going to run out and try it either, after a quick glance, it sure looks like Linux to me.

- Darrin




-----Original Message-----
From: nclug-bounces at nclug.org [mailto:nclug-bounces at nclug.org] On Behalf Of Bob Proulx
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 10:04 AM
To: nclug at nclug.org
Subject: Re: [NCLUG] Hello all!

Warren Turkal wrote:
> Mica Fine wrote:
> > I am going to be venturing into a dual boot with vista and Fedora Core 6.
> > If any one has any pointers I would be grateful. I would like to pull out
> > as little hair as possible.
>
> If it's like prior Windows versions, try to install Windows first. It makes
> the process easier.

Disk drives are inexpensive enough that when I need to do this I
usually dedicate an entire drive to each.  Then when installing
windows it never knows that it is not the only system on the machine.
And I know that when I have physically unplugged the other drive that
windows can't mess with it, having had a bad experience years ago I am
now once burned and twice shy.  After installing windows then I attach
the additional drive for the real operating system.

Newer distros usually automatically detect the MS partitions and do
the right thing with them so you might want to install the dumb os
first and the smart os second.

I would be curious if anyone had played with ReactOS.

  http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html

It is MS-like, not Unix-like, and so not something that I personally
am interested in.  But it is a free alternative to ms and so I might
eventually give it a try.

Bob
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