Just be aware that this project is largely built by Russian developers, which in and of itself may not make the project risky, however, I think it is fair to make this clear in-case anyone has any concerns about this. Is the project trustworthy? What are the odds of any back-dooring or Russian government influence in the project?
I don't want to be a fearmonger, and it's quite possible that the project is safe, but in these times it's worth asking these questions.
Just be aware that this project is largely built by Russian developers, which in and of itself may not make the project risky, however, I think it is fair to make this clear in-case anyone has any concerns about this. Is the project trustworthy? What are the odds of any back-dooring or Russian government influence in the project?
I don't want to be a fearmonger, and it's quite possible that the project is safe, but in these times it's worth asking these questions.
This statement is more like speculative and slanderous
While several Russian developers took part in the project, their total number cannot be called significant against the background of a total number of developers of 250 people.
Check the names: https://github.com/reactos/rea... [github.com] https://reactos.org/wiki/Peopl... [reactos.org]
The project, despite the wide publicity, did not receive any support from the Russian government, which prefers to develop its own forks of Linux distributions https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki [wikipedia.org]
Agreed; the risk is low given this project is far from usable in practical cases (it boots and runs firefox and libreoffice, but its stated goal, which is to run proprietary software and drivers, is really far away) and even when it is usable, it is unlikely to be used by high value targets that the Russian government might be interested to infiltrate.
Also, their goal is to run classical windows (NT, XP), it's not even designed to replace recent versions of Windows. It is like FreeDOS, to run legacy softwar
Just be aware that this project is largely built by Russian developers, which in and of itself may not make the project risky, however, I think it is fair to make this clear in-case anyone has any concerns about this. Is the project trustworthy? What are the odds of any back-dooring or Russian government influence in the project?
I don't want to be a fearmonger, and it's quite possible that the project is safe, but in these times it's worth asking these questions.
Just be aware that this project is largely built by Russian developers, which in and of itself may not make the project risky, however, I think it is fair to make this clear in-case anyone has any concerns about this. Is the project trustworthy? What are the odds of any back-dooring or Russian government influence in the project?
I don't want to be a fearmonger, and it's quite possible that the project is safe, but in these times it's worth asking these questions.
This statement is more like speculative and slanderous
While several Russian developers took part in the project, their total number cannot be called significant against the background of a total number of developers of 250 people.
Check the names:
https://github.com/reactos/rea... [github.com]
https://reactos.org/wiki/Peopl... [reactos.org]
The project, despite the wide publicity, did not receive any support from the Russian government, which prefers to develop its own forks of Linux distributions
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki [wikipedia.org]
Agreed; the risk is low given this project is far from usable in practical cases (it boots and runs firefox and libreoffice, but its stated goal, which is to run proprietary software and drivers, is really far away) and even when it is usable, it is unlikely to be used by high value targets that the Russian government might be interested to infiltrate.
Also, their goal is to run classical windows (NT, XP), it's not even designed to replace recent versions of Windows. It is like FreeDOS, to run legacy softwar
ReactOS has very few use cases left. Good virtualization has largely replaced it.