ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Reaches The Milestone Of Being Able To Run Half-Life - Phoronix ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Reaches The Milestone Of Being Able To Run Half-Life - Phoronix ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Reaches The Milestone Of Being Able To Run Half-Life Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 10 June 2026 at 08:31 PM EDT. 28 Comments ReactOS, the open-source operating system working for binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows computer programs and drivers, has reached the milestone of being able to enjoy the classic game Half-Life running on this open-source platform. ReactOS has been in development for 28 years now and today its developers are noting on X the ability to run the Windows version of Half-Life. Some years ago were reports of the Half-Life game at least initializing under ReactOS while given today's X coverage, it seems to be the first time reported of the game successfully running on ReactOS and handling it in-game. Granted, these days you can run Half-Life on Linux and it works well on other platforms via Wine, it's fun seeing Half-Life now running on ReactOS at it continues persevering in its quest of Windows binary compatibility. ReactOS user "Zombiedeth" got Half-Life running on a Dell OptiPlex system with a Core i5 2400 Sandy Bridge processor and NVIDIA GeForce 8400GS graphics. Details on X for those interested. Related News Alpine Linux 3.24 Improves Installer Experience, Adds COSMIC Desktop Option Asterinas 0.18 Released For Rust-Written, Memory Safe Linux Alternative OS Running CachyOS With The BORE Scheduler While Disabling Ananicy-CPP Xfce Ported To Rust-Written Redox OS For Better X11 Experience NixOS 26.05 Released With 20,442 New Packages, Stage 1 Now Based On systemd By Default Popular News This Week Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Affected Packages ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Reaches The Milestone Of Being Able To Run Half-Life Arch Linux's AUR Sees More Than 400 Packages Compromised With Malware Firefox Merges Support For Vulkan Video Decoding YSERVER: Modern X11 Server Written In Rust With The Help Of Claude Code GNOME File Previewer Finally Switches To GTK4, Adds Dark Mode Linux DRM Ioctl Developed By AMD Being Disabled Following Ongoing Security Issue Intel Ending Development Of BigDL: An Open-Source AI/LLM Effort Getting Axed Fedora 45 Considering A Lightened GRUB Bootloader For Confidential Compute Intel Thermald 2.5.12 Released... With Initial Support For ARM GCC 17 Merges Function Multi-Versioning For APX & AVX10.2 Haiku OS Now Enables AVX-512 Support, Other Hardware Improvements KDE Plasma 6.7 Sees Last Minute Fixes Ahead Of Next Week's Release Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Affected Packages OpenZFS 2.4.3 Released With Many Bug Fixes AMD Opens Pre-Orders For The Linux-Friendly Ryzen AI Halo Developer Platform Benchmarking The Performance Benefits To Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 Packages RISC-V CPU Performance Up 8x In Five Years: SiFive HiFive Unmatched To SpacemiT K3 Linux 7.1 Helping Intel Arc Battlemage Graphics Achieve Better Performance ARM Linux Server Performance Up More Than 7x Geo Mean In 8 Years, As Much As 15x With NVIDIA Vera CPU While Having Ad-Free Browsing, Single-Page Article Viewing Copyright © 2004 - 2026 by Phoronix Media. All trademarks used are properties of their respective owners. All rights reserved. Links
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