Default apps
Are they usable out of the box?
J ust like the OS it emulates, Reactos includes a handful of apps. Besides a number of utilities including Paint,
Notepad and Wordpad, the OS includes the three favourite Windows card games.
Visopsys isn’t much better and ships with a minimalistic suite of apps, since the goal of the OS is to create a fully functional OS for CS students and alternate OS enthusiasts like us. Besides the disk manager and the installer, there’s a basic text editor, an image editor, a virtual keyboard app, a couple of games and a handful of administration utilities.
By contrast, Kolibrios ships with dozens of apps. There’s an audio player, a video player, a VNC viewer, a text editor, a rudimentary web browser and more. The OS also has lots of tools for developers, particularly for FASM assembly, and several game console emulators.
Haiku too includes quite a lot of nifty but essential apps which a typical user might need on the desktop. There’s an email client, a web browser, a media player, an image viewer and a text editor, as well as administrative tools like an activity monitor, a hex editor, a disk partitioner, a simple web server and more.
Openindiana ships with the all-too-familiar MATE desktop and a majority of the apps are from MATE’S stable as well. Besides these, there are a handful of mainstream productivity apps such as Firefox, Thunderbird and Pidgin. Straight out of the box, the Openindiana installation has limited usability and you’ll need to use its package management system to flesh it out.