Thread with 5 posts
jump to expanded post
so the ReactOS codebase includes a clone of Task Manager
and the WINE codebase also includes a clone of Task Manager… in fact, it's the ReactOS one
however, WINE prohibits copying code from ReactOS because they are suspicious it's not legally clean
so the clones have diverged
at first glance they look nearly identical, but:
- the fonts, capitalisation, and shading in the Performance tabs are slightly different
- the ReactOS one dies with high DPI
- the WINE one's graphs break if you resize the window
- the ReactOS one displays a nonsense handle count
- they display multi-core usage graphs differently, with the WINE one showing several line graphs overlaid with eachother, whereas the ReactOS one shows several graphs (and the latter doesn't work under WINE)
- the ReactOS one has a shutdown/restart/log-off/etc menu
- at least when run under WINE, only the WINE one shows the “*32” next to 32-bit processes
- only the ReactOS one has working sorting for the columns in the Processes view
- the ReactOS one shows memory usage in rounded GB whereas the WINE one shows memory usage in ungrouped kB
software archæology…