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Free95: Open-source windows-compatible operating system. (github.com)

submitted 1 week ago by Tea@programming.dev to c/opensource@programming.dev

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[–] lukecooperatus@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Same reason why there are so many text editors that all do basically the same thing, I suppose. More options are not a bad idea, IMO. Maybe they'll do something different and interesting.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

A text editor is a whole different beast than cloning Windows 95/98/2000. I will note that ReactOS isn't simply building a compatibility layer, their end goal is to allow users to actually run unmodified driver binaries from that era to get hardware working.