On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 4:08 PM Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote: > So let's discuss: > > What core programs or components should we put into the application - > if we apply and can get accepted?
For 386+ machines, what about an installer based on Linux that doesn’t need to reboot multiple times to install to HDD? Something that can initialize, wipe, format, install mbr, setup dual boot systems more elegantly that MS equivalent tools can. Maybe something based on DOSLinux ( https://github.com/lpsantil/doslinux) if you want to reuse the current installer boot support. A Linux based installer opens a possibility of a ton of code to reuse. Secondly, something I’ve been researching lately, a TSR web server. A small web server that hooks the packet driver interrupt, only listens for packets from localhost to localhost, can retrieve files and execute CGI scripts/binaries to do simple tasks. This would make browsers like Links2, MicroWeb, Arachne, Lynx potentially more useful. It could open up programming on DOS to folks who were too young to have grown up with DOS. It could be used for things like installer, graphical package managers, help files, graphical help files, file managers. Lastly, collaboration with PCGEOS Breadbox/Ensemble project to improve and bring the project into the FD distribution ( https://github.com/bluewaysw/pcgeos).
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