First, I'll say that this appears to be either a troll or spam. Opening with "FreeDOS is dying" is a classic troll "opening." And there's a note in there that seems to be a discussion with someone else that was accidentally copied/pasted into the email, but shouldn't have been:
> > I expect they will consider it unnecessary. I think so myself. There > > will be other proposals later. > > > > ## Domain And while I usually don't reply to trolls or spam, I'll reply briefly anyway: At best, this is someone who doesn't understand what DOS is. And we get these emails from time to time - I know that I get emails at my personal address from people who have just discovered FreeDOS, and maybe tried to install it, but they don't know what "DOS" is or how to use it. And then they suggest some odd ideas, like "you should make FreeDOS for a Samsung watch" or "you should port FreeDOS to an Amiga" or something else. This person is suggesting turning FreeDOS into some kind of server-oriented platform, like a FreeDOS VPN. FreeDOS is an open source DOS-compatible operating system that you can use to play classic DOS games, run legacy business software, or write new DOS programs. That's the goal. We're an open source DOS. It's clearly a troll. Don't feed the trolls. On Fri, Jul 12, 2024 at 4:45 PM armored--- via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > It's obvious that Freedos is dying. I can probably revive it if I take > a course towards the servers. > > For example, you can save a lot of money if you deploy a VPN on Free > DOS. I'm sure that VPN is already possible there, but it needs to be > advertised. Even in this small version, Free DOS is already useful. Free > DOS should be server-oriented, no one will want to sit in the console > anymore (and even if you compile horg it won't help there too much...) > > Linux is successful because of servers. but now Linux is very heavy > compared to Free DOS and you can win on this. especially if you provide > ready-made builds for example for email, matrix (python is slow and > complex, I know the rest for Nix OS, or does not function, so we will > skip) activity pab, for example Pleroma (better not Mostadon, complex > and heavy). also activity pub, Lemmy... > > I am not a programmer but I can help. For example, in advertising. I > have a lot of knowledge. I am also a bit of a webmaster. Yes, and I > have PHP SQL hosting which is free, we pay only for the domain (and > the hosting domain). > > > I expect they will consider it unnecessary. I think so myself. There > > will be other proposals later. > > > > ## Domain > > It would be nice if with i2p and/or top so that a person could not > pay for domains, and in general. > > And it would also be good to buy a short domain and make a free ddns > for free dos users. > > then because of the freebies people would install servers on old devices > (for many people electricity is free or very cheap). _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
