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ReactOS has been in development since 1996. , it is still considered feature-incomplete alpha software, and is therefore recommended by the developers only for evaluation and testing purposes. However, many Windows applications are working, such as Adobe Reader 9.3, GIMP 2.6, and LibreOffice 5.4.
ReactOS is primarily written in C, with some elements, such as ReactOS File Explorer, written in C++. The project partially implements Windows API functionality and has been ported to the AMD64 processor architecture. ReactOS, as part of the FOSS ecosystem, re-uses and collaborates with many other FOSS projects, most notably the Wine project, which presents a Windows compatibility layer for Unix-like operating systems. (Full article...)Although there was
In 1998, Bruce Perens and Eric S. Raymond began a campaign to market open-source software and founded the Open Source Initiative, which espoused different goals and a different philosophy from Stallman's.
The following
Mobile operating systems:
- Android and forks:
- Ubuntu Touch
- PostmarketOS
- Plasma Mobile
- PureOS
Desktop and server operating systems:
- Arch Linux
- Chromium OS
- Debian
- DragonflyBSD
- elementary OS
- Fedora
- FreeBSD
- Gentoo
- Haiku
- Kali Linux
- Linux Mint
- Manjaro
- NetBSD
- OpenBSD
- openSUSE
- Raspberry Pi OS (formerly Raspbian)
- ReactOS
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Slackware
- TempleOS
- Ubuntu
Linux systems focusing on free software:
- Dragora GNU/Linux-Libre
- gNewSense
- Guix System Distribution
- Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre
- Parabola GNU/Linux-libre
- PureOS
- Trisquel
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- Impediments and challenges
- Binary blobs
- Adoption issues
- Free software adoption cases
- About licences
- List of FSF-approved software licenses
- Common licences
- Permissive free software licences
- History
- ...of free software · Free software movement · Timeline of free and open-source software
- Groupings of software
- Comparison of free software for audio · List of open-source video games
- Naming issues
- Naming conflict between Debian and Mozilla
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