ReactOS - Free NT-clone

[Mini-Me]

Anyone ever tried this OS?
Looks promising - perhaps a way for people to use an XP-ish clone, without having to locate and purchase old copies of XP. I am downloading a copy now to try out later. It is only a 32MB iso file! I suppose I should point out that it is still in alpha, so probably only stable for seeing what it looks like, but if they keep up development...

I'm reading about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS

Also reading about it on their website:
http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html

And you can download it here:
http://www.reactos.org/en/download.html

[PrntRhd]

Been posted before:

http://www.pcguide.com/vb/showthread.php?t=64616&highlight=ReactOS
http://www.pcguide.com/vb/showthread.php?t=47035&highlight=ReactOS

[Mini-Me]

Okey dokey. :)
You can delete this thread then if you like - I don't care...

[PrntRhd]

We can talk about it, just continue.
:D

[PrntRhd]

It would help if the OS was making progress past Alpha stage.

[Mini-Me]

Yeah, looks good in the screen-shots etc, and the text-mode part of the install is dead-easy to do, but I have not yet been able to make it boot the GUI. I always get a BSOD that the system can't start the graphics system.(not verbatim)

I was able to get it to work by selecting 4-bit VGA mode, but although the mouse works, and I can then complete the GUI part of the install, it then falls over with the same BSOD when you restart. Oh well - on to SuSE - my next experiment for tonight... :p

[PrntRhd]

Well, Open SuSe is a different OS altogether.
:)