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Hmm, this could turn out to be promising. Their layer is basically Wine but without the weight of the Linux kernel since their system uses Win32/NT4 all the way down. Dunno if this is faster than QEmu + Wine, but that remains to be seen.Letalis Sonus said:they've already got it to run on ARM. they're working on a user mode emulation for executing x86 windows apps
dflemstr said:Hmm, this could turn out to be promising. Their layer is basically Wine but without the weight of the Linux kernel since their system uses Win32/NT4 all the way down. Dunno if this is faster than QEmu + Wine, but that remains to be seen.Letalis Sonus said:they've already got it to run on ARM. they're working on a user mode emulation for executing x86 windows apps
An Open Source OS.HackModford said:What can they offer that windows can't?
HackModford said:I think this OS is kinda funny.
The geek inside me thinks it's pretty cool but...
What can they offer that windows can't?
dflemstr said:Also, ReactOS will probably be a LOT faster than Windows because it has a community that can trim the Kernel.
How often does Microsoft release kernel updates? Eh? And how fast is MS Windows compared to Linux?![]()
lulzfish said:Oh, ReactOS also doesn't have IE bundled with it, and it will never ask you to take a tour of itself, or whine that your desktop has unused icons.
dflemstr said:Also, ReactOS will probably be a LOT faster than Windows because it has a community that can trim the Kernel.
Well, there's a lot that the MS kernel probably doesn't have that the ReactOS kernel could have. I'm talking about better process scheduling, preemptive and realtime stuff, and also the fact that ReactOS uses gcc (at least for the version I have), which should give a significant performance improvement by itself just because of the extra optimizations. Or am I completely wrong about this?Exophase said:dflemstr said:Also, ReactOS will probably be a LOT faster than Windows because it has a community that can trim the Kernel.
How often does Microsoft release kernel updates? Eh? And how fast is MS Windows compared to Linux?![]()
What the crap are you people talking about when you start mentioning OS speed? An OS won't have appreciable overhead just running. If you're talking about video/audio, then I wouldn't say I completely lack confidence in DirectX's speed (with good drivers present, of course)
Didn't think they were using icc for the kernel.Kramy said:GCC giving performance improvements over the Intel compiler? Am I missing something?
My experience is that gcc is faster than icc as often as the other way around.Kramy said:GCC giving performance improvements over the Intel compiler? Am I missing something?
dflemstr said:Well, there's a lot that the MS kernel probably doesn't have that the ReactOS kernel could have. I'm talking about better process scheduling, preemptive and realtime stuff, and also the fact that ReactOS uses gcc (at least for the version I have), which should give a significant performance improvement by itself just because of the extra optimizations. Or am I completely wrong about this?