Re: Is ELKS a good idea for teaching O.S.

2000-04-09 Thread Prem Setu
dosemu is enough for Elks. I did not try yet but it must be light and fast. If someone want to run Elks on non x86, then she need Bochs Also there is alternative of VMware is under development with GPL... http://www.plex86.org/ (it was called FreeMWare). I am expecting this... love setu

Re: Is ELKS a good idea for teaching O.S.

2000-04-09 Thread Alan Cox
dosemu is enough for Elks. I did not try yet but it must be light and fast. If someone want to run Elks on non x86, then she need Bochs Also there is alternative of VMware is under development with GPL... http://www.plex86.org/ (it was called FreeMWare). I am expecting this... Also

Re: Is ELKS a good idea for teaching O.S.

2000-04-09 Thread Prem Setu
Nicola Girardi wrote: On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 11:46:54AM +0530, Prem Setu wrote: | dosemu is enough for Elks. I did not try yet but it must be light and fast. | If someone want to run Elks on non x86, then she need Bochs Is there anywhere a howto/guide to set up dosemu to boot elks?

Re: Is ELKS a good idea for teaching O.S.

2000-04-09 Thread Prem Setu
Nicola Girardi wrote: On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 11:46:54AM +0530, Prem Setu wrote: | dosemu is enough for Elks. I did not try yet but it must be light and fast. | If someone want to run Elks on non x86, then she need Bochs Is there anywhere a howto/guide to set up dosemu to boot elks?

Re: Is ELKS a good idea for teaching O.S.

2000-04-09 Thread John Galt
On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Prem Setu wrote: dosemu is enough for Elks. I did not try yet but it must be light and fast. If someone want to run Elks on non x86, then she need Bochs Also there is alternative of VMware is under development with GPL... http://www.plex86.org/ (it was called

Re: Is ELKS a good idea for teaching O.S.

2000-04-07 Thread John Galt
But Bochs just went GPL recently, so there is some good coming out of the vmware thing... On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Andru Luvisi wrote: On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Prem Setu wrote: [snip] Host OS: Linux, Win., Mac Emulator: Vmware, Dosemu, Bochs [snip] For those who care about this sort of thing,

Re: Is ELKS a good idea for teaching O.S.

2000-03-18 Thread Prem Setu
Hi It is good idea to run ELKS on top of another Host OS for teaching or learning. (developing too). Student does not need to have 2 box. They don't need to reboot to switch OS. There are several products to have virtual 8086 PC. Host OS: Linux, Win., Mac Emulator: Vmware, Dosemu, Bochs Also if

Re: Is ELKS a good idea for teaching O.S.

2000-03-02 Thread ghost
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Juanjo Marin wrote Iñaki, I am looking for a simple OS to use teaching (modifying the kernel) and despite simplicity is very important, I'd like to be possible to load pre-compiled programs and to have a file system in hard disk. I think that Minix may be a better

Re: Is ELKS a good idea for teaching O.S.

2000-03-02 Thread Juanjo Marin
I am a beginer with Minix and ELKS, but I prefered ELKS (not MINIX) first because Minixs' bad development. I actually mean that Minix's developers don't work so hard on Minix. At the first time, I asced Al about somethin, and I recived answers very fast, on Minix distribution I asked some

Re: Is ELKS a good idea for teaching O.S.

2000-02-29 Thread David Murn
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Alegria Loinaz. Inaki wrote: I am a new participant in the list and after reading FAQs I have a couple of questions: - Is ELKS able to run executable programs from standard Linux? Not directly, since standard Linux programs are in 32bit code, ELKS is mainly for 16bit

Re: Is ELKS a good idea for teaching O.S.

2000-02-29 Thread Alistair Riddoch
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 01:10:52AM +1100, David Murn wrote: On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Alegria Loinaz. Inaki wrote: I am a new participant in the list and after reading FAQs I have a couple of questions: - Is ELKS able to run executable programs from standard Linux? Not directly, since

Re: Is ELKS a good idea for teaching O.S.

2000-02-29 Thread Juanjo Marin
Iñaki, I am looking for a simple OS to use teaching (modifying the kernel) and despite simplicity is very important, I'd like to be possible to load pre-compiled programs and to have a file system in hard disk. I think that Minix may be a better option for teaching because there are books

Re: Is ELKS a good idea for teaching O.S.

2000-02-29 Thread Arnaud Launay
Le Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 04:29:47PM +0100, Juanjo Marin a écrit: About Linux, there are some documents and books about the kernel. There is a translation of David Rusling's "The Linux Kernel" avalaible in any mirror of LuCAS (LinUx en CAStellano). And there is a translation of a French (or