Thank you for your answer Ruxgulo but I think I've been misunderstood in some parts, where I admit I may not have made myself clear
> No Javascript support is one obvious omission. But "modern" web (HTML > 5, etc) practically demands Firefox or Chrome anyways. Just get a > cheap Chromebook, that's probably your simplest answer, if you need > all these modern niceties. As I mentioned, I personally do not "need" all those niceties, but I was stating that it would have been better if they were available; I know what Windows and Linux are capable of, and I've already seen what a Chromebook can do. I'm not demanding from FreeDOS to be Windows or Linux, but I just wanted to share my experience with FreeDOS (as I have some more spare time in those summer days), and possibly give some good hints and feedback :). > If anything, I'd say GUI is worthless, it doesn't (usually) add any > power or any extra features at all. So you don't really "need" it. But >I guess it looks nice and is simpler to use I prefer command line, and use it every time I can. On FreeDOS I mostly do not launch a GUI. If I do it is windows, and it is to launch windows' exes. Someimes I set OpenGEM in autoexec.bat, because I want to save a little time with by pointing and clicking. I use FreeBSD on my desktop and on a old laptop, alongside FreeDOS, Archlinux on another laptop, and installed Slackware on my father's one. In none of those cases GUI is enabled by default and I prefer to run Xorg or Wayland at need. However there are obvious things a command Line will never replace a GUI for and there's nothing to argue about that. The day I would be able to open youtube or see a movie with mplayer from a zsh shell, I believe I'll never install a desktop environment again. One reason for which I spoke about windows3 is that its not just a GUI for DOS. The other is that I feel that many people are not eager to try FreeDOS because they're have never seen a CLI and are somehow scared of it. I believe that one of the main goal of a free software is to reach the largest community possible, obviously trying to avoid to distance itself too much from its native structure, targets and guidelines. Provided I were to write a free software, I would be proud if more people had installed it, or if anyone would have made a new, different use of it, without altering my own work. Keeping my target in mind, i would have written it in a way it would affect the largest audience possible. In that way, It's a pity that some people buy a pc with FreeDOS installed and prefer to delete that 1 Gb partition, because they do not know what they could do with it, they do not know how to set a dual-boot, and, what's more, they have to look on youtube to be told how to select a boot device on their UEFI because "FreeDOS has ruined their optical drive and now their pc is unable to read window's installation disk". Currently all free OSes and software that are worth an hardware installation (thus excluding for me Haiku, ReactOS, Darwin, Syllable, FreeOS etc..) are Unix-like systems and most of them is whether Linux or Android. This means If I want something free it is Unix or nothing. Do not take me wrong, I love Unix and Linux, and I would go with it forever. But I imagine that someone might not like it as I do, and that's when other things like FreeDOS come in handy. So my post was mainly focused on possible solutions for other people who are willing to try a freesystem and want to break out of the Linux environment. My goal was to argue whether FreeDOS would fare well or not as a portable desktop, everyday-use, system, without the need of moving it away from its roots. I'm not here to say if Linux can replace every single thing it does, and if can do it better. So many people just ask GUI and some basical applications to do their work. >* http://www.mevis-research.de/~ritter/awakeideas/desktop.html >* https://sourceforge.net/projects/fltk-dos/?source=navbar Thanks very much for the two links provided. I knew Desktop2 but thought it to be not available in English. I think I've both of them a try ;) > If you use VBox or QEMU (atop Linux), you don't have to look far to > find a working packet driver. I don't doubt it, but I don't see the point of using internet in QEMU, atop Linux. If you booted linux, then you just need to open links, epiphany, or firefox. > I doubt it's there already. He probably wants us to add it. As I said, Blinky is available among supertuxkart among characters. All characters (and subsequently karts) in the games are inspired to a free/open source project's mascotte. You can find Blinky among the addons (simply clicking on the addons panel to download it, or you can download it from official web site, and put it in a folder in the game addons subdirectory, under the name 'Blinky').the destination folder is for me (on FreeBSD): ~/.local/share/supertuxkart/addons/karts I usually invite two friends to come to my place, and play with them on LAN, but if you know someone's nickname you can add it and invite him assuming he's online Cheers, Paolo -- View this message in context: http://freedos.10956.n7.nabble.com/FreeDOS-as-a-everyday-common-use-system-Pros-of-making-FreeDOS-and-Windows3-more-compatible-tp26884p26888.html Sent from the FreeDOS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
