> What are the goals at this point for Freedos 1.1? Fix BUG's ...
> I would like to see an effort to move from a free dos system to > a free Windows 9x/Windows Millenium replacement. Please don't disturb the death silence. R.I.P. Windaube ;-) > Another area that Freedos is weak in is word processing. You can > download and obtain an illegal copy of Microsoft Word for dos YES :-( > like to see an effort started to find out if Openoffice can be > supported on a dos based platform. It can. But you need a compiler with DOS support, and some usable GUI. And, you have to know what type of DOS you want to support. NTVDM support -> death of DOS development :-( > 1) Create a Freedos compatible clone of Windows 9x/Windows Millenium. NO. > No, the ReactOS project isn't trying to do this and never will. Good :-) > 2) Make a best of Wordperfect/best of Word word processor that is > GPLed available to Freedos users. Good idea. > 3) Abandonware. This issue isn't going away unless popular commercial > programs are replaced with truly adequate free alternatives. Indeed. > 5) Start a wiki on how to update Freedos and move towards people being > able to set up a local Linux server to update their Freedos > machines from. ??? > possibly something else. I for one would like to get updates on > compact disc or DVD, the snail mail protocol. Good, but FreeDOS doesn't need too frequent updates ;-) > 7) A lot of people don't use pop to access their email where Arachne > doesn't support IMAP. Please someone address this. Arachne also lacks HTTPS and HTTP uploads. JS sucks but many pages :-( > It seems that there is a lot of emphasis on programming languages and > some emphasis on hardware, but what about application software? I have a video editor in the pipeline ;-) > A project to go from HX Dos extender to a full blown dos compatible > Windows compatible gui HX GUI ;-) > that improves over time, this could be a major > catalyst pushing Freedos development going forward. As long as you don't add VxD's into it ... About world processing, I tested "ANTIWORLD" recently and it works somewhat. But it doesn't support the new ".dogx" format :-( -- ~~~ wow ~~~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
