News Windows XP Source Code Reportedly Posted to 4chan

[Darkbreeze]

No one would waste his time making Nvidia RTX drivers , forget it ... Hackintosh people did not even bother with very large community that wants Nvidia to work on Hackintosh , they simply switched into AMD for native drivers support.

Linux as well , no one is bothering making his own drivers , it is just too hard to make.

Chipsets drivers are easier to make , but still with the lack of UEFI bios support on win XP , it will need emulation , and no one would waste his time for a dead system.

Nobody said anything about Nvidia RTX drivers son. There is more to life, a LOT more, than JUST what revolves around gaming scenarios. FAR more users and machines out there that are NOT for gaming, than those that are.

 

[JOSHSKORN]

Well, crap. Time to reformat my computer, install Linux and use Windows 10 in a VirtualBox.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Hooray for Virtualbox.

 

[captaincharisma]

expect to see a new and improved version of reactOS

 

[randomizer]

expect to see a new and improved version of reactOS

Actually this poses a non-negligible risk to ReactOS as it's harder to say with certainty that nobody looked at the Windows source code if it's highly accessible.

 

[ChaoticWolf]

That's crazy. So many leaks these past few months.

 

[nofanneeded]

Nobody said anything about Nvidia RTX drivers son. There is more to life, a LOT more, than JUST what revolves around gaming scenarios. FAR more users and machines out there that are NOT for gaming, than those that are.

GPU are not only for gaming ...

 

[Darkbreeze]

That's true.

 

[hotaru.hino]

expect to see a new and improved version of reactOS

They're going to avoid the leak like its Chernobyl. The whole reason why ReactOS can exist is everything was black-box reverse engineered.

 

[OriginFree]

You may be forget than Microsoft since W3.11 copy/paste this code OS after OS. It's why you receive same error message than 20 years ago or the window not change same error message. This code is too big and not enough devs and can't code all from scratch.
So probably a lot of security issues these next months.

Actually XP was a cut and paste from Windows NT.
Win Me was the last of the DOS windows.
I still think they should have released the DOS based Windows code years ago.

 

[nofanneeded]

Actually XP was a cut and paste from Windows NT.
Win Me was the last of the DOS windows.
I still think they should have released the DOS based Windows code years ago.

DOS is a very small OS , it can be reverse engineered ...

 

[knowom]

The end is the beginning and the beginning is the end.

 

[kal326]

Not sure, but there were still quite a few ATMs running Windows XP not too long ago.

Today, certainly isn’t that long ago...

 

[nings]

After Heartbleed, I'm starting to think open source offers little more than an illusion of security. People assume security checks are done just because the code is available. The notion that sophisticated work would get done without people getting paid is sort of crazy, really.

Found due to open source this type of issue can stay hidden in closed code for years or just lifetime. A team of XX devs can't think and check all. Everyone can look open source and all should be solved one day or another. Closed source can stay until distributed like XP
The best thing with open source you can continue to secure old hardware device unsupported by the official manufacturer like ddwrt for the wireless device can continue to have support and have last security update. Or Android if chip manufacturer continue to update their driver for support new version.