You’ve heard of WINE, the Windows Emulator, which lets Windows applications run on Unix-based operating systems, but do you know about ReactOS? It’s a decade-old, non-profit project to build an open-source clone of Windows itself. It’s taking a long time time because Windows is huge, it keeps changing, there’s an ongoing code audit to ensure nothing is copied from Microsoft, and the ReactOS team are mostly volunteers. Still, they reached a milestone this week, releasing networking support for ReactOS version 0.3. (Have you tried ReactOS yet? Email me)

For more on ReactOS:
- read this internetnews.com article

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