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 ...

Over the past couple of years with the Jenny’s Daily Drivers series, we’ve looked at a number of unusual or noteworthy operating systems. Among them has been ReactOS, an open source clone of a ...

A volunteer-developed operating system that has spent 30 years reimplementing Microsoft Windows from the ground up has crossed a new threshold: ReactOS now runs Valve's original Half-Life — a ...

ReactOS is an open source operating system designed to let you run Windows applications without installing, you know… Windows. It’s been in development for more than two decades, and it’s still pretty ...

A few weeks ago I wrote about Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and noted that “Microsoft’s RDP client, Remote Desktop Connection Client 2.1 doesn’t support OS X 10.7 or later.” … an observation to which ...

ReactOS is an open source operating system designed to be compatible with Windows applications. It’s been in development for more than two decades and is still very much work-in-progress software, but ...

Do you think Linux is an alternative, hobbyist operating system? Ha! Linux is mainstream. If you’re looking for the next niche OS, you’ll need to dive deep into the cracks and crevices: passion ...