Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released
I have discovered the wifi connection I am using have a locked ftp port... That won't cause any problems, as there is an http download link presented on the FreeDOS download page for your convenience as well. ;-) That's btw the link I tested the other day... And in a few minutes, we'll have a torrent seed, thanks to our friends at ibiblio. :-) -- Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Problem with download Re: FreeDOS 1.1 released
Correct, known before, unfortunately. Only solution is to wait for the mirror sites to catch up, as they do offer HTTP-only along with FTP. If you have a bittorrent client, you can now use the torrent seed listed at www.freedos.org/freedos/files/ Also, a few mirrors have sync'd with the 1.1 release: http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/freedos/files/distributions/1.1/ http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pc/dos/freedos/files/distributions/1.1/ You might try one of those. -jh -- Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released
And in a few minutes, we'll have a torrent seed, thanks to our friends at ibiblio. :-) That's working fine as well, about 3x as fast as http, with only 1 peer when I started (myself?, shows 6 peers by the time I was finished). But would be surprised if that would work for Marco, that an ISP blocks FTP but NOT torrent traffic... :-\ Agreed. Maybe one of the mirrors I mentioned in my other post will work for Marco. Note that I only commented out the list of mirrors. If you view the html source of www.freedos.org/freedos/files, you will be able to see URLs to all of the mirror sites. I'll re-add the (working) mirrors over the weekend. -jh -- Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Marco Achury marcoach...@gmail.com wrote: I cant connect ibiblio today, Appear that freedos release has colapsed the servers :-) Would be interesting to get downloads statistics in order to know how many people around the world is following freedos development... I haven't had any problems from Minnesota (ibiblio is located in North Carolina.) -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released
Would be interesting to get downloads statistics in order to know how many people around the world is following freedos development... I'll see what stats we can get from ibiblio. Been a while since I needed stats from them, but they do track it. At worst, I may have to wait until the end of the month to get monthly stats. -jh -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS in a Qemu box.
On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Tiago O. de Almeida toacyanide...@yahoo.com.br wrote: Are there any hints to install FreeDOS inside a Qemu box? I'm trying this right now, but the installation process is damn slow. This is the Qemu command line: qemu -cdrom ~/.qemu/fdbasecd.iso -hda ~/.qemu/freedos.img -boot order=c,once=d -m 31M -k pt-br -soundhw sb16 -M pc -smp 1 -cpu pentium -name FreeDOS -sdl I've tried several values to -cpu, including qemu32/64, pentium, 486, core2duo; and also raise the -m value up to default (128M). QEMU is a full emulator, but sometimes emulators can run quite slow. I'd just let the install process take as long as it needs to; you'll only need to do that once. It should be fine after that. If you have the option, you can also do a manual install of FreeDOS by unzipping each of the install packages (which are just specially-crafted zip files) into the C:\FDOS directory. This won't install the kernel in a bootable way, but I think you can run SYS from the installation CDROM. This should be faster, albeit a more manual process. -jh -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Dictionnary program not working
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Shérab sebastien.hinde...@ens-lyon.org wrote: Dear all, I'm trying to use with Linux + dosemu + freedos a french dictionnary which was published about 20 years ago with a search program running under MS DOS. For the moment, I'm not able to make this program work. No matter how I try torn it, nothing happens till I press Enter, which brings me back to the DOS prompt. It is worth mentionning that I tried qemu+MS-DOS 6.22 which lead to the same result. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Also, should you need any additional information, I'm willing to provide them. Hi. I've never used a dictionary program on DOS before, so I can't offer any particular help on this problem. However, others might be able to help if you mentioned the name and version of the program you are trying to use. You don't get any output from the program, so this may be difficult to track down. -jh -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] AST driver problem...
But according to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AST_Research as of early 2011, the dormant AST trademark appears to be being relaunched by a new, independent company named DATA ACCESS based in France. I don't know if that means they purchased the previous copyrights (Beny Alagem, founder of Packard Bell Electronics, bought the name and intellectual property of AST Research, Inc. in 1999.) Saw this too, and I have the strange feeling that this is just another cyber squatter... Yes, and those guys always worry me. They are similar to patent trolls, who buy up patent portfolios, then sue people who infringe on them. I don't know anything about DATA ACESS, but maybe they are an IP troll who bought AST's intellectual property portfolio to do something like that. -jh -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] AST driver problem...
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 6:11 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 6:48 PM, James Hall jh...@freedos.org wrote: It's not an ideal situation for these old drivers, but we need to be careful here. And I'll admit that I'm not sufficiently motivated to comb through all the driver zip files (I assume zip) and read all the Readme License files, just to see if we can redistribute them. I'll leave that to someone with more free time. :-) Be careful of what? Generally speaking, people only really care when they think there is money involved. What money *could* be involved here? Careful, as in there seems to be a company out there that purchased the IP from AST Research. I don't want to get a CD letter from them, or engage in anything that involves a legal defense. We just don't have the resources to do anything against it. Yes, companies don't tend to care unless there's money involved. But in the case of trademark law, if you fail to defend attempted mis-use of a trademark that you own, you automatically lose it. So companies tend to police trademarks pretty aggressively. I'd rather err on the conservative side here, and not mix the AST Research driver archives with the FreeDOS Project archives. I'd put the drivers up on a website and let folks know they existed. The website would make it clear the drivers were archived there as a service for folks who happened to have the hardware, and were offered free of charge to those who could use them. I'd state that I was doing so because the manufacturers were out of business and the drivers could not be found elsewhere, and offer to take them down if someone who could demonstrate they were the rights holder objected. I would be rather surprised if any such rights holder came forward and complained. It's a good idea. But I'll let someone else take that project. :-) -jh -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Dillo web browser for DOS
Thanks! Looks like Dillo doesn't support background images in CSS, and/or the display:none directive, so it's displaying the word FreeDOS in the H1 instead of an image. I can fix that on the web site. On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Marco Achury marcoach...@gmail.com wrote: Here is a screenshot of freedos.org using dillo for Win32 and View mobile site http://tinypic.com/r/2q18ig0/5 El 21/11/2011 09:02 a.m., jhall escribió: I guess I need to find some time to install Dillo and see what is not rendering properly on the FreeDOS site. My guess is Dillo does not implement all of the CSS that I am using there. Most likely, it is breaking on absolute placement (this would mean the tabs show up at the bottom, as would the left-hand links.) I wonder if a workaround would be to detect Dillo on the web site, and treat it like a mobile browser so it gets the simplified pages. If you click on View mobile site in the footer, does the page look okay? jh -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Dillo web browser for DOS
Thanks, I posted a news item on the front page. Looking through your library source files, I was happy to see all Free licenses: * FLTK: GNU LGPL with exceptions * Freetype: dual-licensed with the Freetype license, or GNU GPL * Microwin: dual-licensed with MPL, or GNU GPL v2 * nxlib: dual-licensed with MPL, or GNU GPL v2 I didn't look into the fonts yet, but I assume you are using free replacements there as well. Thanks! I can't wait to give this a try! -jh On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 1:28 AM, nospam nos...@georgpotthast.de wrote: Hi Jim, as you can see on the download link it is the first beta version I released. You can surf the web as you can see on the screenshot but there are a couple of issues I am currently working on. These are mentioned in the User Guide. Georg - Original Message - From: jhall jh...@freedos.org To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 5:18 AM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Dillo web browser for DOS I have spotty Internet service right now (traveling, again) so I may have to wait until tomorrow to post this on the FreeDOS web site. Sounds exciting! On Nov 17, 2011, at 10:15 PM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros fav...@mpcnet.com.br wrote: Hi Georg, The Dillo web browser has been ported to DOS now. This came as a complete surprise to me. Thanks very much! This is great news for us DOS users. Dillo worked immediately in my Pentium 166 under FreeDOS. Marcos -- Marcos Fávero Florence de Barros Campinas, Brazil -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
