Derek Newhall wrote:
--- Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Eli,
James Tabor is probably right. To do this right,
we need a simple,
stable DOS (or MS-DOS emulator), with drivers for
hard disks, USB flash
disks, USB hard disks, LANs, etc., which can read
and write all
varieties of FAT and NTFS without damaging long
file names and other
metadata.
You want Linux
No, we want DOS.
A Microsoft server admin would be much more
comfortable using a DOS-based rescue disk than
anything *nix based since they all know the DOS
commands.
That is an issue of the user applications and shell, not the OS. Just
because you use a DOS kernel does not mean that you have to use a
COMMAND.COM-style shell or clones of the external commands shipped with
MS-DOS. You could use e.g. bash on Linux with aliases to map the MS-DOS
commands to the GNU Coreutils equivalents. I believe that there are
also packages of executables (compiled executables or interpreted
scripts) that allow you to use the MS-DOS commands and their syntax on *nix.
It is of course also not hard to *learn* to use coreutils. Simply run
"command --help" instead of "command /?" and read the man page if you
need further information. Messy-DOS is a clone of CP/M with elements
from *nix. It does not have something as useful as an organised,
central manual for documentation of user commands.
A person managing a *nix server will know
*nix and therefore use Knoppix or FreeSBIE but give a
Windows user a Knoppix CD and they'll be lost.
Not if they are doing simple tasks with KDE.
Also,
DOS has a smaller footprint (in both memory/CPU usage
and disk space) than *nix or Windows which could be
quite usefull.
You can create small-footprint Linux distributions also with e.g.
busybox and uClibc.
I think a FreeDOS distro for rescue/maintenance work
would be a really good idea and if started I would
almost certainly try and help.
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