Hi Eric,
"Windows is much more than a GUI. There are also 1000s of
programs which need Windows (even Windows 3) to function.
If you would make a new GUI for DOS, it would not allow
you to keep using all those Windows programs."
I have no problem running W31, for those programs that I still own from the
last century :^).
Actually I was thinking of a refinement of OZONE, as a DOS based GUI, that
would function as a FreeDOS menu system with easy access to games, media.
etc.
BTW what do you know about CarbonOS? Is it sanctioned by the FreeDOS
project? I started an install on a spare HD, but it seems to not be any
more than a FD kernel w/ 4dos, and its system file hierarchy is difficult
to adjust to in its present state.
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Don,
>
> > Is anyone working on a functional GUI for FreeDOS? I currently use
> Windows
> > 3.1 as I do consider it to be a gui and not an operating system and it is
> > about 90 percent functional. It would be nice to have a completely open
> > source OS though.
>
> Windows is much more than a GUI. There are also 1000s of
> programs which need Windows (even Windows 3) to function.
>
> If you would make a new GUI for DOS, it would not allow
> you to keep using all those Windows programs.
>
> There are several free open source GUIs for DOS, but you
> only get a small number of programs for them. There is a
> free open version of GEM for DOS. Some classic programs
> for GEM can still be used with that. There also are some
> new free programs for GEM...
>
> The other open source GUIs for DOS usually start out as
> graphical file managers with a menu to run programs, so
> eventually you get a notepad, clock, calculator, agenda
> and a few simple games for them. Some may even support
> a bit of web browsing or email, but they all do not get
> that huge number of programs available as Windows.
>
> On the other hand, there are some free open clones of
> Windows itself: ReactOS is a complete operating system
> which runs Windows software and Wine is a software for
> Linux which lets you run Windows software directly in
> Linux :-) The support for DOS software is quite limited
> in both, but of course you can use DOSBOX or DOSEMU in
> the Windows or Linux versions in ReactOS and pure Linux
> and run your DOS software in those special "DOS boxes".
>
> Regards, Eric
>
>
>
>
>
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