While this may be the toughest goal, it would be great if Freedos could just
add support for some of the newer hardware. Not all of it, because some are
heavily dependent upon a GUI environment. But much is not.
Pushing toward more elaborate GUI front ends will only bog down Freedos, and I
think its current best market is for situations where the resource necessary
for all that isn't available or desired.
But it would be great to use existing web browsers in Freedos on my wireless
laptop for example. Or to access usb flash drives and the like.
--- On Mon, 7/21/08, Florian Xaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Florian Xaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS project goals?
> To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Date: Monday, July 21, 2008, 12:23 PM
> > Is the goal to become only a 100 % MS-DOS replacement
> or also higher
> > goals? Like to become an alternative for desktop end
> users, a competitor
> > to windows/linux?
>
> We have discussed this frequently :-)
>
> 100% compatiblity with MS-DOS is the goal of FreeDOS 1.x.
> But later,
> with 2.x+, there can be other goals.
> Many tools of FreeDOS's distro are better than
> MS-DOS's and even
> better than the tools of Dr-DOS.
> I don't think that it could be an alternative to
> windows/linux in all
> parts, but in some (I am using): yes. Mpxplay and QV are
> examples.
>
> I don't think, that FreeDOS needs a big goal, but my
> opinion is, that
> the focus of versions of FreeDOS > 1.x should be to add
> as many
> featues, with may be exists even now, as possible.
>
> I am afraid that the goal will be "an OS for
> emulators/virtualizers".
> But it should be more :-)
>
> Bye
> Flo :-)
>
> >
> > Do you consider big enhancements on the website?
> >
> > Or do you want just to continue all like the current
> state?
> >
> > Interesting questions to answer.
> >
> > I am asking this because of a upcoming project called
> nevasca. It's
> > basically about to create a new operating system
> ("distro"), an
> > alternative to windows/linux. Currently everything is
> in planing and
> > discussing stage and about to talk with people likely
> to support the
> > project in any way.
> >
> > The first homepage is http://www.nevasca.co.nr and the
> forum's website
> > is http://nevascaproject.proboards85.com
> >
> >
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