LiberNT - A free NT operating system

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Comment by breakingcups 2 days ago

Not sure how to feel about the "Let's fork ReactOS and vibecode hundreds of commits per day" approach.

Comment by tancop 2 days ago

Better than flooding upstream with it.

ReactOS is focused more on getting the basics right and reverse engineering obscure APIs, they deserve all the credit for that. But their kernel is NT 5.2 so it can't even support .NET apps. That's a deal breaker for any serious use. LibreNT is shooting for a serious alternative to modern Windows.

Comment by officeplant 2 days ago

>LibreNT is shooting for a serious alternative to modern Windows.

I would say good luck combining "serious alternative" and sloperating systems, but then modern Windows is going off a cliff so maybe compared to Windows this is serious.

Comment by feldrim 2 days ago

At least the developer of LiberNT has sufficient knowledge to work with AI tools and he can review low level code. In many other forks, it's common to see people as mere meat proxies.

Comment by jdboyd 2 days ago

What is the evidence of that? I ask, so that it can be identified on other projects.

Comment by feldrim 2 days ago

The developer of LiberNT worked with ReactOS and he managed to contribute a lot. But regarding AI governance on the project, there were conflicts between the developer and the community. This caused the separate fork we have seen called LiberNT.

It's not inferred from the work but through weeks of communication. The only evidence would be the chat history of ReactOS Mattermost.

Comment by qubex 2 days ago

[citation needed]

Comment by killix 1 day ago

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Comment by zamalek 2 days ago

And I just got a PoW challenge when opening the site. Ironic.

Comment by d3Xt3r 17 hours ago

The logo looks a bit too close to the Linux Foundation logo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50243914

Comment by gregglain 2 days ago

Windows NT in 1994 holds a special place in my heart. Such pure computing. Makes me happy to see this project and hope it does great.

Comment by qubex 2 days ago

I first encountered NT 4.0 at age fifteen in 1996 and realised what a huge jump it was compared to the dOS/Windows 3.x/Windows 9x lineage. I went on to use it for the rest of the nineties and I was a beta tester for NT 5.0 (which later became Windows 2000). I jumped ship in 2003 and switched to MacOS X before XP SP2 was released. I feel a strange sense of familiarity but also alienation whenever I have to use a Windows machine nowadays.