If you want to run a clone of Microsoft Windows to escape the drama of upgrading to Windows 10, try ReactOS — but do not expect it to be a fully functional replacement any time soon. ReactOS is a free ...

In the crowd of GNU/Linux and BSD users that throng our community, it’s easy to forget that those two families are not the only games in the open-source operating system town. One we’ve casually kept ...

I spent the day running what feels like to me as one of the weirdest Operating Systems on the planet: ReactOS. A few days ago I started out on a quest to use as many Open Source (but not Linux) ...

Miss Windows XP or 7? Then I have a free, open-source alternative for you ...

This is perhaps one of the most Windows-like distribution of Linux. It is somewhat a replica of Windows 7, with the Start menu, Taskbar, etc. The speed of the OS distribution is appreciable. Zorin OS ...

News briefs for March 4, 2019. Linux kernel 5.0 is out. Linus writes, "We have more than a handful of real fixes in the last week, but not enough to make me go "Hmm, things are really unstable". In ...

Although the ReactOS project is in no rush to dethrone Windows as the desktop operating system of choice, this doesn’t mean ...

Modern Linux distributions are powerful operating systems that can fully replace Windows or macOS for many users. But there are still some Windows-only applications that may not be available for Linux ...