We are happy to have an opportunity to talk with Alexey Bragin, the Project Coordinator of ReactOS – an open source Windows analog. ReactOS is getting more and more attention in press and over the Internet. We are asking Alexey questions often arising among potential users and developers.
Alexey, how did you join the project?
I was developing different software, mostly under Windows. Open source was already quite popular at that time, and, at some point I had a simple thought: UNIX-like operating systems have many followers with open source code (Linux, FreeBSD), there is a whole GNU infrastructure. Why more modern operating system designed as a replacement for outdated UNIX does not have any open source realization? After brief search on…





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