Answering inline: On 13-11-2015 23:44, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Alain Mouette <ala...@pobox.com> wrote: >> I have been using FreeDOS on a Linux VM for a few years now and I made a >> special image to make it public: >> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/33399957/FreeDOS/Ubuntu140432-DosemuLimpo-1.ova > Exactly how big is it? (I'm guessing not very small. 2+ GB??) It's 992M bytes. I used LXDE-core to keep it small but with some basic functionality: editor, file manager and a little configuration
> >> * VirtualBox Appliance, just: Files > Inport appliance... and you have a >> full VM >> * Based on Ubuntu LTS with LXDE, as light as possible to remain usefull > I guess I was naive in expecting someone to make a console-only > version first. (Not that I'm complaining.) I want very much to make one such, but I have a few concerns: 1) it will be usefull if based on a distro that has universal hardware drivers, including video 2) I have no idea of what would be the best way to run Dosemu+FreeDOS in graphics mode without a window manager but using Linux drivers. Or maybe a lighter window manager 3) This VM is based in configuration that I have been using and perfecting over the years for my day-job >> * Fast access to host files using VirtualBox share >> * Dosemu and FreeDOS fully preconfigured, can run graphic programs >> * Network fully functional, can talk to any device on your network >> * 3 FreeDOS instance can access the network and talk to each other too > So packet driver stuff (Watt-32, e.g. Wget) works? Y-E-S !!! Packet Drivers are fully configured and are working with any ethernet configuration of the VM There is even a PING command included, but it doesn't use Watt-32. I would appreciate some more testing ;-) >> * There are a few Dosemu patches applied for graphics and keyboard >> >> Some of it (most) is in portuguese. If there is some interest I can make >> an international version or some needed resource > I don't think there is much interest in i18n. I think we're all too > tired or just used to living without it, which is probably not ideal. > :-/ I was not thinking of i18n, but most of it is in portuguese (that is what I use), I was thinking of an English only release. Most of the scripts I wrote lately are already with english comments ;-) Alain ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
