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Does anyone know of a Windows Compatible OS other then ReactOS Im trying to program one myself, Im a begginer myself and im interested in seeing other peoples work.

Linux + WINE?

Nope. Wine is a compatibility layer on top of Linux, not an OS in its own right. Wine does teach you zilch about how the Windows OS works, it just shows you how it can be mapped to Linux.

@ sweetgum:

ReactOS has come a long way. I do not know of any other such project that's anywhere near a similar level of maturity.

IMHO, however, Windows is basically a good example of how not to do things, from an engineering perspective. (As, in my eyes, is Linux...)

Im trying to program one myself, Im a begginer myself

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Solar wrote: IMHO, however, Windows is basically a good example of how not to do things, from an engineering perspective. (As, in my eyes, is Linux...)

So you're saying that you think Linux is the wrong way as well? That's quite an interesting point of view, one usually picks one or the other.... So what, you go for BSD? GNU? Mac? what? Of course, there is no perfect operating system until we make our own, right? .

Not even our own OS is perfect - there can never be a perfect system because there will always be bugs and errors. Even if there is a totally "bug-free" system all it takes is a minor electrical fault in the CPU and a bit is flipped and something goes wrong.

From a design perspective as well a lot of systems don't do some things as well as they could. A "perfect" design would be one where everything is considered in advance - which is practically impossible in this world where things keep changing almost every month .

My 2 cents .

Solar wrote:IMHO, however, Windows is basically a good example of how not to do things, from an engineering perspective. (As, in my eyes, is Linux...)

Well, I am using windows, and I see extremely good paging support, good file system support and multimedia - codecs present theirself to the operating system. Perfect ACPI Support. (actually ACPI is made from several comapanies and one of these is microsoft). Drivers are easy to use and make. It seems that windows is example of how you SHOULD do OS things. Anyway, if you talking about integrated in OS applications like explorer or task manager or paint... That is example of how NOT to do things. But these applications are no directly related to the OS construction level.