There's also Geary, but that project is a little immature.Ĥ.) If your company is tied to Outlook and/or Exchange, you can use the webmail version in the browsers offered in your GNU/Linux distro. Chrome/Chromium and Abrowser/Firefox on a GNU/Linux distro can access the same sites and playback the same media as their Mac OSX and Windows equivalents.Ģ.) Want to play audio and video even in the Windows Media and MP4 formats? VLC can play anything you throw at it and of course supported on GNU/Linux.ģ.) If local email is a priority, Thunderbird works the same as the Mac OSX and Windows equivalent and has excellent POP3 and IMAP support. Here is why.ġ.) The web browser is the most used program regardless of operating system. Especially if they are using an OS based off of Ubuntu. The average user (business or not) is much better off now using GNU/Linux instead of Windows than they were 10 years ago. The ReactOS uses its own kernel, compatible with the Windows NT architecture. It's developed by clean-room reverse-engineering, so the developers doesn't use any code or binaries from Microsoft, but some of the source code is shared with the Wine project. Nowadays, despite many fundraising efforts, ReactOS remains mainly a hobby project led by some few developers.
Unlike GNU, the goal is to make a free replacement for Windows that's binary compatible with the already available software/drivers.
Where the GNU project and Free Software Foundation aimed to develop a fully-free operating system, mimicking the Unix, there is ReactOS and the ReactOS Foundation.
#REACTOS COMMUNITY EDITION FOR FREE#
Because ReactOS wasn't ready for the time I moved away from Windows in favour for free software, I opted for Trisquel GNU/Linux instead, which I needed to wait 3 years to become usable with the release of version 4.0 in 2010 (that I still use on my older ThinkPad computer). ReactOS is in development since 1998, so there's no "great news" about this.
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