Subj : Re: Alternative OSes (was: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.)
To   : esc
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sun Nov 06 2022 08:51:00

-=> esc wrote to acn <=-

 es> I sometimes keep an eye on ReactOS - having a modern "Windows XP"
 es> alternative that is always up to date and runs on new hardware would be
 es> /very/ cool, particularly from a BBS SysOp perspective.

I ran TinyXP for quite some time for the BBS, it's XP with most everything 
removed - basically a GUI app launcher minus most built-in Windows app. I 
assumed the attack surface would be much smaller if all the OS did was run 
Notepad and launch the BBS.

It ran in barely any memory, pretty sure it idled around 112 megs of RAM.

I started having problems with third-party apps dropping support for XP; I 
wonder if ReactOS would resolve that.


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