I'm not sure how long this will be around for public consumption, but it maybe worth a look if Linux or the BSDs can't do what you need.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMo8NP-2oP35rauon-Duc9Q

https://www.reactos.org/


I will also add, it would be smart to download the source code, learn how to compile the complete distribution and make it run.  You never know how things might go in this fragile little world of ours.  You might just find you are the only person on the block that is self-sufficient when the Internet is dead or dying and everyone else's machine that is so tightly tied to the Internet is no longer functional.  If you have the source code and know how to use it, you become your only limitation.

I would rather have all Windows API calls translated into native POSIX calls within its own compatibility layer:

Wine Is Not (an) Emulator

I guess ROS is a step forward from Microsoft. I don't use them anymore.

Quote from Matt Watts on April 3rd, 2017, 05:03 AM

I will also add, it would be smart to download the source code, learn how to compile the complete distribution and make it run.

Gentoo.

:hide:

I like my C64.
Turn it on, it works, everytime.
If I only could browse websites with it, that would really be sugar on top.

Quote from haxar on April 3rd, 2017, 05:52 AM

I guess ROS is a step forward from Microsoft. I don't use them anymore.

If I could get my hands on the source code for Windows Server 2016, I'd be sitting pretty.  It's as close to bullet proof as Micro$oft will probably ever get.  Strip out all the Spy-APIs and you'd have a solid platform there.

Quote from Lynx on April 3rd, 2017, 08:04 AM

I like my C64.
Turn it on, it works, everytime.
If I only could browse websites with it, that would really be sugar on top.

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/classics-rock/surf-the-web-on-your-commodore-64/

Quote from Matt Watts on April 3rd, 2017, 05:03 AM

I'm not sure how long this will be around for public consumption, but it maybe worth a look if Linux or the BSDs can't do what you need.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMo8NP-2oP35rauon-Duc9Q

https://www.reactos.org/

I will also add, it would be smart to download the source code, learn how to compile the complete distribution and make it run.  You never know how things might go in this fragile little world of ours.  You might just find you are the only person on the block that is self-sufficient when the Internet is dead or dying and everyone else's machine that is so tightly tied to the Internet is no longer functional.  If you have the source code and know how to use it, you become your only limitation.

Wow, they've really fleshed ReactOS out. I tried it out way back when it was less than a year old, and it crashed far too often. That was when I was experimenting with various flavors of Linux as a replacement to Windows. I ended up keeping WinXP on my old laptop, and my new laptop came with Win7. If WinXP ever goes FUBAR on my old laptop, I'm going to give ReactOS another try. It might take awhile, though... I have 15 complete clones of the entire internal drive on an external hard drive's partitions (I keep a rolling backup once a week, overwriting the oldest clone), and I can roll back to any of those in about 10 minutes. If the internal drive crashes, I can also boot from any of those cloned drives.

So if my internal drive and external drive somehow crash simultaneously, then I'll drop a new internal drive in, install ReactOS, and set up another external drive for clone backups.