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ReactOS Can Now Boot With The Windows Audio Stack... But No Sound Due To Bugs (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

One goal of ReactOS is to run Windows drivers, which Wine can't do. There are old specialized devices with Windows exclusive drivers still running in production requiring something like Windows XP or 2000. You can't replace these with Linux and Wine. It makes sense for Russia to sponsor it; they probably depend on these old installations in either their refineries or somewhere in their nuclear program.

Fuck Russia but I wouldn't interpret too much into this

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's an interesting use case but why wouldn't they just keep using WinXP for those specialized aplications? Why fix what is not broken?

I know it's not secure, but it doesn't really matter when it's not connected to the internet?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Apart from security and upgrades, there might arise situations where you want to change aspects of the underlying operating system, and these changes might require changes to the source code.

Also if you remember Stuxnet, those computers were also ~~airgapped~~ not connected to the internet.