Hello! Merry Christmas above all. I wouldn't mind have dos or freedos for a main computer, but i mainly have more games than programs (not games aren't programs) and the problem with both DOS is hardware. I've stated before the main and i wont say "problem" but issue is hardware.
In my main PC i have a HDD for Windows 10, another for Linux Mint and considering another for Windows 11. Since Windows 11 came out of the closet i've been using Linux Mint and i like it very much, however i can't play windows games because they won't run with wine and virtual machines even worst. So linux is better than windows in many ways, but i can't discard windows because of games and some software that doesn't exist for linux or just can't do the same things. I grow up the DOS, i still have my first pc IBM 286, but i don't have many floppy disk for it and i won't speak in hardware for maintaining it. So DOS/FreeDOS for companies/end users that have the need for it, yes and should be maintained, but for games it simply is a no go. You just can't show up on a store and by a sound card or graphics or even a pc for that matter. I have two Pentium 2 and Pentium 3 and i'm not using because of sound and graphics not to say monitor... To end DOS Rules, Windows Drools! On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 10:47 PM Wengier W via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > I certainly hope to see more people using DOS/FreeDOS as the only (or > primary) operating system. However, without things like full support for > Internet and modern hardware (modern sound card, USB devices, etc) this > cannot occur, unfortunately. IMO, DOS/FreeDOS need to support things just > like a typical "modern" OS (e.g. Linux) does, so that the general public > won't consider DOS a "legacy" OS, or a system that is limited to very > specific uses. > > Wengier > > On Friday, December 24, 2021, 05:35:06 p.m. EST, John Vella < > john.ve...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'm going to make it my new year project to finish getting the 80486 pc > working, and once I've upgraded the memory, (4 Meg isn't going to be > enough, is it?) I'll be using freedos as the only operating system for my > distraction free writing pc. > > On Fri, 24 Dec 2021, 22:00 Jim Hall, <jh...@freedos.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 2:11 PM Jon Brase <jon.br...@gmail.com> wrote: > > They're not talking about it in the context of log4j itself, they're > > talking about it in the context of other open source projects, that > > don't have something like the Apache foundation behind them, that > > are critical infrastructure, but have one or two maintainers working > > on them as a labor of love alongside a day job, and the potential, > > as such projects become legacy software, for them to still be > > half-maintained (and maybe maintain a significant user base) long > > after an institutionally maintained project would have officially > > been EOLed. > > > > And there is something of that kind of risk with any DOS variety > > still in use. Any remote execution vulnerability, through any > > network-aware DOS software, is basically automatically a remote root > > vulnerability by the nature of the system. Now, most FreeDOS users > > are probably using it for retrogaming and such and not for anything > > business-critical, but anybody using it in an embedded setting needs > > to be really careful about exposing it to the network. > > > > I really wonder how that would effect DOS, after all there is no > > web interface, nor any Java in (Free)DOS. So (without having watched > > this rather long video yet), any such conclusion seems to be a bit > > far fetch IMHO... > > > The statement in the video (starts at about 24:00, for others who want > to watch it) was awkwardly made. This person makes the statement that > some open source projects should just shut down rather than keep going > (I'm paraphrasing broadly here). And gives the example of "If MS-DOS > were open source" he opines that it shouldn't go on. > > Putting aside the fact that Microsoft did eventually release (early > versions of) MS-DOS under an open source license, this guy is just > wrong. Lots of people use DOS and FreeDOS to do useful things, like > running classic DOS games or applications, and supporting some > embedded systems or control systems. > > I usually try to see the other person's point of view - but in this > case, he's off base. Whatever. > > Jim > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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