I would like to agree with Tom: It is good that FreeDOS comes with a nice collection of drivers for modern hardware! Those times when a DOS driver was included when people bought their CD drive have long passed. Also, there are no reasons to limit our distro to those minimal features of a few MS DOS disks ;-)
>> an operating system without CDROM and network drivers doesn't sound >> very useful to me, even if everything has the correct license. YMMV. > > I think that the key is to perceive FreeDOS as a replacement to MSDOS, > nothing else (that is, "BASE")... It is good to have a BASE download (probably with "live CD" or "live USB stick" function, not requiring but allowing install to other disks) if you want a basic no-nonsense system. Still I would like to see drivers included even in such a download. > But then, for actually useful (practical) stuff, one has to rely on a > FreeDOS distribution, like Svarog386, or collect the required "non-free" > bits by hand over the internet. It also is good to have a FreeDOS distro which contains a pile of nice useful free software, if possible fully open source. I think IBIBLIO also requires open source for the file hosting. I would NOT want the FreeDOS distro to be limited by extremely specific license taste. As far as I am concerned, GPL 2 and 3, MIT, Artistic license, BSD license, public domain etc. are all perfectly fine for inclusion of packages in our normal distro. > Otherwise I agree it can get a bit frustrating for actual users, > and that's the reason I started Svarog386 in the first place. Looking at your package listing, Svarog386 is quite nice, but we should not give up the hope of having a nice plain FreeDOS distro. Jerome, could you make a list of packages which existed in either FreeDOS 1.0 or 1.1 but are not currently included in 1.2, along with the reason for exclusion? I think we should indeed be a bit more generous regarding inclusion of packages! Thanks :-) Regards, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only the apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data untouched! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
