Hi! Forwarding something from the BTTR forum:
"I tried to use the FreeDOS 1.3RC installation CD. Because I found a Dell Latitude610 notebook. And I am really dispappointed because it is something really awful. The live system is unusable, the boot process ends in the minimal configuration unable to do anything useful. No file manager is prepared and the user has no usable help. The user even has no information which disc drives are in the system." The review also compares it to the Windows-based Hiren Boot CD, making me wonder whether we play in the same usability league. In Hiren, you get a hierarchical menu of available utilities at boot. So for Live CD utility purposes, it is very easy to use. Next, the review tests installation, given that the Live CD use case is as unfriendly as you would expect DOS to be ;-) "Ugly FDisk (although we have a more user friendly partition tools)" Also, the install is slow. How slow is it? Are caches used? ELTORITO? After the install: Again "No file manager, no infi about installed drives. No utility for getting some system information" Interestingly, the reporter mentions the BLOCEK text editor as the only source for getting a system information overview? Which better SYSINFO utilities could we bundle? HWINFO, NSSI and VC probably are all closed source, what else is out there? Finally, the reporter (the whole post has a quite harsh tone) complains that the default install will install FAR too few useful apps and that the package management groups are badly sorted (e.g. no subcategories for utilities) and that there should be no base64 tool in "base"... Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
