XSOS

The Black Pumpkin · Post by **The Black Pumpkin** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 9:33 pm

Has anyone ever heard of this? Supposedly it'll have DX10 support, but the only thing available info wise is a few forum threads.

jakegub · Post by **jakegub** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 10:04 am

Do you have a link or anything? I can't image DX10 support on a non-Windows operating system.

Dragon_Cooler · Post by **Dragon_Cooler** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 10:38 am

jakegub wrote:Do you have a link or anything? I can't image DX10 support on a non-Windows operating system.

lol i was kind of thinking the same thing. lol

Post by **dicecca112** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 10:50 am

I am a beta tester for it over at XS. from what I understand it is essential vista with a lot of junk stripped, but it uses a Unix type kernal. XSOS 2.0 was okay, except it would get beaten benchmark wise by Win2K. I'll let you guys know my impressions when I get it.

jakegub · Post by **jakegub** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 1:20 pm

I hope I am not hijacking the thread, if you all want me to i can start a new one, but I think people should start looking into ReactOS. It is a pretty small beta project trying to build an open source OS that is fully compatible with windows applications. UNFORTUNATELY, they don't currently support SATA so my testing of it was done. I would love to see more come of it though.

http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html

Post by **dicecca112** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 1:31 pm

no your not hijacking at all. XSOS IRC, is Windows with Linux parts put in, React is Linux with Windows parts put in

dgood · Post by **dgood** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:10 pm

sound cool, what are operating system requirements for both? I have an old athlon xp 2200+ with 512mb ram and a 9600 downstairs in my basement doing nothing since I haven't put a new windows versions on it and my retail has been registered too many times on that same computer for it to be registered at the moment had the problem before, had to call them just haven't gotten around to it. I might be interested in trying one or both of them on it. (not my gaming rig of course

well not yet.)

jakegub · Post by **jakegub** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:13 pm

If you go the ReactOS link i posted above, you can downlaod an install ISO or just the Live CD. They have compatibility information, and I guess it's still an alpha project, not a beta project, but you could possibly add to their compatibility information

largon · Post by **largon** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 3:34 am

It's hoped XSOS 3.0 will support DX10.

link to XS forums OS section:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/for ... .php?f=111

Post by **dicecca112** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 6:02 pm

I'm locking this until whether or not its determined that XSOS is warez.

Post by **Apoptosis** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 10:22 pm

unlocked... It's not warez!

Post by **dicecca112** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 9:37 am

I'll be able to get you guys some first hand reports, screenshots and the like, when nn_step over at XS gives me my beta copy.

liqnit · Post by **liqnit** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:01 am

This sounds great.
I was working with ReactOS for several weeks but it is still too early to work as a the main environment.
Please post any thoughts i am very interested

Post by **Apoptosis** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:03 am

bwall here in the forums was a alpha/beta tester, so I'm sure he can fill all you guys in.

liqnit · Post by **liqnit** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:10 am

Thanks , bwall if you read it please do