Stas Sergeev wrote: > 15.08.2013 12:06, Frantisek Hanzlik пишет: >> IMO almost all (or completely all) users in this list uses DOSEMU >> with FreeDOS (with benefits as free/open SW, still active evolved, >> well bonded with DOSEMU /Bart Oldeman is significant FreeDOS kernel >> developer/, wide free DOS utils support etc.). >> >> Thus, althougt with DOSEMU can be used perhaps any DOS, I think >> there isn't 'official' detailed instructions for DR-DOS - all docs >> is in man pages and texts from /doc/ DOSEMU directory. >> >> Maybe, when there in list will not be any DR-DOS+DOSEMU user, You >> can more detailed describe what You exactly need, and someone can >> help how did it with FreeDOS. > Please note that FreeDOS has a huge disadvantages. > - Cannot be built by any GPLed compiler, which is why, AFAIK, > dosemu is still in debian contrib. It is not "free" by the debian > standards. > - Is not compatible with Win3.1, while dosemu is declared to > be compatible with it. > So FreeDOS should be suggested with care. > > I simply have a DOS partition dated ~1993, when FreeDOS > didn't even exist, and I use dosemu to boot from that. > So the FreeDOS users should correct me if some of the > points above are no longer valid. Hello Stas, I'm not developer nor licensing expert, thus sorry for maybe outsider and inaccurate thinking, but: - regarding to building FreeDOS with GPLed compiler and things that DOSEMU/FreeDOS isn't in certain Linux distros: as I understand this, distro maintainers not include it in distro cores because FreeDOS cannot be compiled with _open_source_ compiler (IMO it doesn't need to be GPLed one). Thus, isn't their opinion from pre-openwatcom era and now nothing prevent to include DOSEMU/FreeDOS into Linux distributions? Of course, I personally shall be happy to see DOSEMU in Linux distributions too. - FreeDOS compatibility with win3.1 maybe isn't too critical and may be abandoned (my opinion; at first I think win3.x is some transient stage, neither DOS, nor windows (in Czech we call it 'kočkopes' which is some as 'catdog' - neither cat, nor dog). And second, I not know when someone use win3.x - I know several peoples which uses DOS programs, but I don't know anybody who use win3.x (in fact, two years ago only one man which I have known migrate from Win 98 to newer OS)) Franta Hanzlik Luční 502 Linux/Unix/LAN/Internet Tel: +420-377946353 33209 Štěnovice e-mail:it@xxxxxxxxxxx Fax: +420-377946353 Czech Republic http://hanzlici.cz/ GSM: +420-604117319 Tento mail neobsahuje viry, byl odeslán z operačního systému Linux -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
