since windows XP' source code was leaked, is anyone trying to make a modern version of it?
For why
No because Microsoft would DMCA the shit out of it
>>106510857Upload it to Hyphanet. Can't do shit about it.
>>106510845It's a lot of work and even if you managed to do that, you can't publish it without getting sued into the ground.What you can do instead is studying for projects like ReactOS.
>>106510871Who the fuck would use it?
look at him go
>>106510880If it lets you run Windows programs and especially games with 0 issues and no MS shit, actually a lot of people.
>>106510880No idea, but if you took that uglyass gui and frankenpaste it into some troonix npc distro, zoomers would worship it.I'll continue to use whatever works best on my P4 and that's Posready 2009, my daily driver.
>>106510883You are delusional.
>>106510880literally everyone who hates windows 11 but doesn't want to make the jump to linux or macOS
>>106510883>>106510955>use an old illegal OS with only a few devs uodating it to do all your important daily stuff>with no drivers btwyou are deeply tech illiterate, underage, and retarded
>>106510883Ignoring the legality, in order to achieve that, you'll need to take some source code from modern Windows, which hasn't been leaked. Without that, you'll just end up getting a Frankenstein OS which is basically like Windows XP + Wine. Good luck with that
>>106511010You can fix stuff and update some components (and I'm all for that) but it'd still be XP.
>>106511024>You can fix stuff and update some componentsThat's what Wine and ReactOS has been doing for the past 25 years or so. You're just going to have a perpetually unfinished OS that will only be worked on by Russians because nobody else wants to get into legal trouble for working on it
Run the original in a VM and live with it. No need for whatever you have in mind.
>>106510913>>106511010>what are hypotheticalsEmphasis on "IF"
>>106510883>>106511055It would still be Windows, an unstable piece of shit that will BSOD and eventually succumb to software rot forcing users to reinstall the OS
>>106511086That never happened to me once I moved from 9x and the pre-SP versions of XP.
>>106510857People release cracked AAA games under anonymous nicknames all the time. They get DMCA'd too. Do you think muh law is gonna stop them?Why are you retards so limpwristed?
>>106510845https://desuarchive.org/g/search/subject/wxp/
>>106511038ReactOS failed miserably because they never finished the XP stuff before they began working on the Vista+ slop.
>>106510845There's no point. You could just use modern Window or Linux and theme them into XP.
>>106510883You can already do it using one core api on regular windows xp
>>106511168The difference between that and maintaining an old version of a proprietary commercial OS still under copyright protection is that cracking games means you just make the game playable without DRM so that it can be played without purchasing a copy. Which is much easier to do than to actively develop and maintain an OS that is still copyrighted and you don't have permission to maintain and distribute your own forks of Windows XP. It's not realistic and feasible to do that and nobody wants to spend the time to do that. If you think these two are the same you are actually retarded
>>106510845there was some attempt to make the leaked code compile with some success but that was the most notable achievement after the leak. If even Microsoft doesn't want to bother with legacy shit anymore, then random /g/ users certainly won't. The thing is the only viable use case for XP, aside from nostalgia, is compatibility with old apps. Changing the XP source code would be detrimental to backwards compatibility, because even fixing bugs could break some old random application that relied on the existence of these bugs (example: https://cookieplmonster.github.io/2025/04/23/gta-san-andreas-win11-24h2-bug/). And even if someone wants to use XP for nostalgia and doesn't want to use custom Linux DE themes they could just install Supremium or Mypal for modern browsing and that library that allows most modern Windows apps to run on XP I don't remember its name rn.
Because ReactOS exists and has so far stayed on the right side of Microsoft's watch but if it ever got popular Microsoft would EEE it.
>>106510955Windows 11 is inevitable, Microsoft is a 4 trillion dollar company and has to keep 1.4 billion Windows users happy, it doesn't care about a few autists on a Mongolian basket weaving forum.
>>106511434It's actually crazy how big windows is, when you consider that so few people can actually afford a desktop computer. In contrast Fedora Linux confirms they have around 1.2M users total, that's wild
>>106510871>upload it to normal hosting>dmca by microsoft>upload it to pedonet>noone downloads it
>>106510845No because the project is too complex to do it effectively. You need to track bug reports, you need different people willing to work on different subsystems, you need a way to get updates out, and you need a way to coordinate all of this without worrying about DMCA takedowns. No one with the skills for it is going to deal with this. The more hidden it is, the less likely you are going to get the developer numbers you need to do anything worthwhile.The best you are gonna get is patching old vidya where the source leaked.In that case you usually have a set list of things you need to do (fix modern platform bugs, linux port if you can be bothered), and you can do it yourself or with friends. Once you are done with what you need to do you can drop the new build somewhere and eventually it will end up on pcgamingwiki where people can get it. This has already happened a few times, usually under the name of "unofficial patch" or "updated game client", because it is much easier to pull off as an anon.>>106511192Wine has issues for the same reason. fixme fixme fixme. Try re-arrange the tabs on HxD, they broke that like 8 years ago.
>>106511491If normies are stupid enough to fall for the glowie psyop against darknets, their loss.
>>106510845Nondev retards like you always ask for somebody to do gargantuan pointless tasks. If you're that autistic, why don't you do it yourself?
>>106510881I do not remember this icon.Maybe because I always used Classic theme
>>106511599This is true. I am also guilty of this. 99% of users are
>>106511651I actually don't think its normal?
>>106510845there was a project here for like a year of people working on it but everyone got bored or something, i think there was a bunch of things missing from the leak that needed to be reimplmented
>>106510845No, because people are either too retarded or too afraid.
>>106511718there was some schizo shitting up all the threads here, interest was already low but that killed itlooks like there's some new project trying to fix it up, but they're asking for donations to add ARM64 support, pretty much no chance for that lel
>>106510845No. That code is tainted. If you look at it you are not allowed to work in wine.
>>106510845Also that code isn't going to help much. What wine devs do is implement the same functions of Windows libraries but in a different way. The only way windows XP would help is to understand ambiguous specification, but you can also do that by testing what happens in games and applications. It's simply not very useful to have that source code.
>>106511779whats the point in making it work on arm when none of the software would be compiled for it lol
>>106511491More people need to use Hyphanet then.Should be much more popular, especially in Europe where censorship is through the roof
>>106511749which one are you?
>>106510845Best Windows (Windows 2000) leaked too, in 2003 if I remember, and yet WINE and ReactOS are useless.
>>106512024Indifferent.
>>106512059They have policies against touching that code even if it's just for learning from it. Useless projects anyways.Also the leak was massive and there weren't all that many seeders.
Win7 is better.
>>106510871how many days will this take? and then how many days to download? are you retarded ?
>>106511962i2p is better for this
>>106510845link to sources?
im going to train LLM models on microsoft code then use it to build an OS i will sell for profit. they will have to sue me and prove in court that it is a violation of intellectual property law :)
>>106512316No idea. The more people use it and the more hdd storage you give it, the faster it gets for everybody.
>>106512571https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/ee25b981597634616eafce210df4d67bacf661ff/cool_stuff/ms-sources.txt
>>106510857>Respect the DMCA!>Hand rubbing intensifies
>>106511516>>106511962You need to understand that pedonet and similar projects will ultimately fall into irrelevance, because very few people will ever want to use it , therefore no strong communities will ever form there and you will have no content to download there. The whole mindset of "hurr we need no normies durr" is simply wrong, because 5 tech-illiterate vir/g/ins simply won't be able to do anything.
>>106512095so? they can't prove you looked at it without also admitting they looked at it too.>>106512059also NT4 and 3.5 leaked
>>106510883Those people are probably using Skulltrail's One-Core on XP
>>106511651>>106511679It's because OP's screenshot is from around beta 2/RC, not RTM. :p
>>106510845yeshttps://alphalibrary.miraheze.org/wiki/OpenXP
>>106510845>since windows XP' source code was leaked, is anyone trying to make a modern version of it?https://theopenxp.org
>>106510880Me. XPSP5 was GOAT.
>>106515175>XPSP5SP3 was the last official service pack for the 32‑bit version of Windows XP, zoomer.
>>106510845>a modern version of it?there are more modern versions of windows, retard
>>106512095>Also the leak was massiveThe actual WinXP/Win2K3 leaked source code is only 2.93 GB. The 40 GB torrent, that you are talking about, contained many gigabytes of useless Bill Gates conspiracy videos. Here is the magnet link for the original leaked source code:>NOTREPACKEDmagnet:?xt=urn:btih:1a4e5b67060ff2bc8fe2de36a6c265c77f392a0c>>106515254>there are more modern versions of windowsModern versions of Windows suck ass.
>>106510845That's a great idea anon. Post a download link when you're done.
>>106515348>contained many gigabytes of useless Bill Gates conspiracy videos.Kek
Maintaining a modern OS sounds like an actual nightmare. It's DOA with all the compatibility shit you gotta deal with now. Back in the day we had service packs and that was all you got for a few years, maybe even 5.
Guys, let go already...
>>106510845>since windows XP' source code was leaked, is anyone trying to make a modern version of it?you couldn't even run it i don't even think it was the complete source code either
>>106516136only a couple files were missing to complete an entire iso build, and you can just copy them from retail
>>106516078no
>>106515613tech illiterate incels sincerely believe jews magic is impeding winxp to usena RTX5090
>>106510880Everyone who hates windblows 11 and we're never happy with windows 10.
>>106516858>no programsnow what, idiot?
>>106516947What? What slop are you talking about?
>>106513835A large part of the problem is that you have to install it and edit config files to make it work properly. This might be solved if someone makes an app-ified version, sort of like what the Orbot phone app does for Tor, or integrates it into a browser so it's a simple on/off button to access it.The other part of the problem is dumbasses like you making it out to be something just for pedos, especially right now with the growing censorship. It has a lot of potential as a way to share ideas and information that companies and governments don't want you to have, but instead you help the censors by driving people away from the tools they need.
>>106517020Too many programs won't run on XP anymore. They gripe about missing exports in system DLLs, and you can't just put Windows 10 DLLs in the app folder because XP is missing some syscalls they use. Presumably someone could update the source to add the needed syscalls, but it would be significant work.
>>106517037>The other part of the problem is dumbasses like you making it out to be something just for pedos, especially right now with the growing censorship. It has a lot of potential as a way to share ideas and information that companies and governments don't want you to have, but instead you help the censors by driving people away from the tools they need.I got banned several times for "advertising" Hyphanet even though I only mentioned it in privacy-related threads where people were asking for help to circumvent censorship. Glowies will glow I guess.
>>106510845no but people have ported xp explorer.exe to 8.1 and newer
I just want windows 98 with support for multiple cores, more ram and modern web browsers.
>>106518038That's Windows 7.
>>106518038Windows 98 is a program running on top of a 16 bit operating system from 1980. Good luck.
