Just one more "wish list" item, If someone could rework the RPM 2.37
Advanced Boot Manager to work with drives above 8gb and then port that into
RPM 2.44 that would be awesome.
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Rugxulo <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Karen Lewellen
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Granted, I am not using a browser directly on my computer, but this
> > of mouse because I cannot. it is because no one has done a dos build of
> Lynx
> > in a grand while.
>
> Juan Manuel Guerrero did a DJGPP build (not necessarily heavily tested
> nor lots of new code written) for Lynx a few months ago. It's on the
> mirrors. I know I posted a message here about it. I thought you'd have
> noticed that. I haven't tried it personally, and it sounds somewhat
> complicated to use (download this, set that), but it does exist. But I
> wouldn't pin any huge hopes on it doing everything you want by
> default.
>
> > Equally elinks needs spider monkey to have the slight
> > java and for some reason I cannot find a recent links for dos.
>
> I'm not aware of any Javascript support in DOS. Which is bad because
> some things (e.g. Google Groups) now require it.
>
> But indeed there is a Links2 port to DOS (thanks to Mikulas). I
> mentioned that on the mailing list too, and I mirrored it to iBiblio
> for us. This I have (somewhat limited) used, esp. under QEMU or VBox
> (where I actually have a working packet driver). Even "-g" (graphical)
> works. He's done a test build very recently that attempts to fix some
> things (I guess??), but I haven't tried it.
>
> > Browsers not withstanding though, why is it so hard to just do this in
> freedos?
>
> No developers, no testers, very disorganized (well, FreeDOS is
> organized quite nicely, thanks to Jim Hall, but overall the DOS
> ecosystem is chaotic). And that's with free tools, a free kernel, and
> well-documented interfaces. It's considered old, dead, obsolete, and
> nobody cares anymore. Blame them, not us! We're too few in number to
> do anything major.
>
> > took me ten minutes to do the setup i have for networking.
> > I may hunt the wifi card below, if it is suitable for a laptop.
> > Sorry if this seems innocent, but what is the challenge?
>
> It's a complicated world, always fighting to replace (or break)
> pre-existing things, so no, it's never easy. Plus people (even
> so-called friends) can't even get along. It's a mess. Sorry for
> cynicism, pessimism, it's just frustrating trying to not fail when
> everything is against you.
>
>
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