New Open Source Windows-Compatible Operating System Released

Red Hat product manager Pau Garcia Quiles (also long-time Slashdot reader paugq) spotted an interesting project on GitHub:

Free95, a new lean, Windows-compatible operating system is available from GitHub. In its current form, it can run very basic Win32 GUI and console applications, but its developer promises to keep working on it to reach DirectX and even game compatibility.

'Free95 is your friendly Windows Environment with an added trust of the open source community,' according to its README file. (It's licensed under the GPL-3.0 license.) And in answer to the question 'Why?' it responds 'To remove Windows's bloat, and security problems. Being controlled by a large corporation is unsettling.'

'It's still in-development of course,' the developer post recently on Reddit, 'and I'll appreciate anyone who'd like to contribute.' In one comment they claim Free95 is 'much more lightweight, simpler and faster than ReactOS.' And looking to the future, they add 'I might do DirectX stuff and make some games run. Or, what about DOOM?'

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