Finally, something on topic. ;) FreeDOS is neat, though still a little rough around the edges. I installed it to play Harpoon II but had some problems with it, since Harpoon II uses its own memory manager. It even has its own bootloader that is apparently configurable.
What would be really cool is a tool that spits out bootable CDs from a drive partition with FreeDOS and some installed game, or maybe a slew of em. Hmmm, this is doable... -----Original Message----- From: will hill To: [email protected] Sent: 7/30/03 3:07 PM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Can you tell **** from shinola, or your heiny ? On 2003.07.30 10:20 Dustin Puryear wrote: > At 10:40 AM 7/30/2003 -0500, you wrote: > >You found Schlitz in bottles? Here I was buying it in cans and pouring it > >into a mug. Let me know where you saw them. On second though, I like the > >pint size. > > Got me. I don't drink beer, but I do run Linux. > That's good. Free software is good for you. Beer is bad, just look what it's done to me! I think that's the whole point of the "free beer" analogy: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Commercial software, like beer, brings some temporary joy. Even when it comes at no cost, it is harmful in time. Taken to excess, you'll have no idea what you are doing or talking about and it might even be fatal. In the worst of all cases, you will wake up with a hag like Microsoft Word, she'll tell you she's pregnant and you'll think it's your fault and add her to your harem of other life suckers, Outlook, SMB .... It's amazing how people get suckered by it, "If I pay to run Microsoft on my computers, I can get all this free stuff, like Winzip," ha ha ha. Free software brings joy without the headaches. Beer has caused me fewer headaches than Microsoft has. Still, I have a Windoze98 dual boot box to talk to horrid legacy hardware. I think I'll try setting up a Free DOS box. When I'm done, I'll have a beer. One or two won't hurt, will it? _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
