Hi,
Chema escribió:
For a DOS GUI, I would recommend GEM. Shane of Shaneland has made a
really nice GEM distro. Free GUI with, quite important, quite a few
apps available for it as well. Windows has more, sure, but Windows
is complex. Still you can get that for "free" if you use ReactOS as
standalone or Wine as inside-Linux way of running Windows apps.
Preemptive multitasking is just not DOS, as little as it would be
"sailing" if you equip your sailing ship with a fusion starship drive.
But ReactOS tries to create an OS compatible with all Windows series,
I don't find it. I hope the day somebody creates a opensource GUI
clone of Windows 3.xx for DOS systems, with the same look & field, but
with support for current devices like USB, wireless, graphic cards...
and of course it can run the Windows 3.xx applications created until
now.
Well, I would say that Win32 compatibility is more appealing than Win16
compatibility, also given that there are few (I know none) Win16 open
source apps that do not have a counterpart for Win32. Win32 releases you
from much of the machine-specific discomforts, Win16 doesn't.
GEM is nice, but only supports 16 color screen and it doesn't have
many applications.
I am not used to GEM, and for some reason am not a fan of the
Macintosh-is style (or Macintosh has GEM style, but I don't want to open
that discussion) of having menues at top, but I don't think Seal has
many more applications either. Much for the contrary GEM seems to have
much more, although I ignore how stable are they.
Aitor
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