Hi Don, > Is anyone working on a functional GUI for FreeDOS? I currently use Windows > 3.1 as I do consider it to be a gui and not an operating system and it is > about 90 percent functional. It would be nice to have a completely open > source OS though.
Windows is much more than a GUI. There are also 1000s of programs which need Windows (even Windows 3) to function. If you would make a new GUI for DOS, it would not allow you to keep using all those Windows programs. There are several free open source GUIs for DOS, but you only get a small number of programs for them. There is a free open version of GEM for DOS. Some classic programs for GEM can still be used with that. There also are some new free programs for GEM... The other open source GUIs for DOS usually start out as graphical file managers with a menu to run programs, so eventually you get a notepad, clock, calculator, agenda and a few simple games for them. Some may even support a bit of web browsing or email, but they all do not get that huge number of programs available as Windows. On the other hand, there are some free open clones of Windows itself: ReactOS is a complete operating system which runs Windows software and Wine is a software for Linux which lets you run Windows software directly in Linux :-) The support for DOS software is quite limited in both, but of course you can use DOSBOX or DOSEMU in the Windows or Linux versions in ReactOS and pure Linux and run your DOS software in those special "DOS boxes". Regards, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
