On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 7:19 AM tom ehlert <t...@drivesnapshot.de> wrote: [..] > after all, an OS is not an end target: > people need the OS to run their applications like > > 1. Play classic DOS games. > > 2. Run legacy software. > > 3. Develop embedded systems. > > none of this is open source.
Liam wrote: [response to #3 - embedded systems] > > Not sure that's important in 2023. Any citations? Tom wrote: > http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page To be fair, the wiki (and website) are outdated on this, since the last survey. That's entirely on me. I plan to do the long-promised website refresh, which will represent the use cases from the survey: 1. play classic DOS games 2. run classic DOS apps 3. develop DOS programs This drops "embedded" in favor of writing new DOS programs. This is because most of the people who replied to the survey are already FreeDOS developers, or otherwise experimenting with DOS programming - so that's not a surprise. There's arguably a 4th use case: using FreeDOS to run a BIOS update. But I'd argue those users aren't really installing FreeDOS to use FreeDOS - they are using FreeDOS just to do the BIOS update, then they are probably not going to use FreeDOS after that. Jim _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
