Sad to see UIDE/XIDE switching to closed-source, undermining my interest in FreeDOS for anything beyond low-level access to hardware and spreadsheets with Quattro Pro 5 for DOS (already migrating to Gnumeric).
This is the first I've heard about any feud between Rugxulo and Jack Ellis. I don't intend to get involved in any family feuds! I was never able to read a CD or DVD on new computer, SATA drive; all I'd get was the title, but file directory never showed. I find it easier to build and install FreeBSD and NetBSD from source than install FreeDOS 1.1, and much more functional. I still haven't configured network access with FreeDOS, since newer Ethernet chips don't include DOS packet drivers. If something like UIDE/XIDE were switched to closed-source in Linux, BSD or Haiku, there'd be many other developers to fill in the gap, and more sense of community. I might also say that if Net-Tamer (http://www.nettamer.net/tamer.html) were released to open-source instead of languishing with no further update since 1999, there might have been potential for development and improvement, but now figures to be many years too late considering other open-source browsers for Linux/Unix so much further developed. Switching from MBR partitioning to GPT means I can install FreeDOS only to USB stick, and pretty much prevents anything serious with ReactOS. Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
