Hi, what kind of hardware (amount of RAM / harddisk space, CPU speed) do you have? You should read the FreeDOS.org software -> networking list to see what you can do network- wise with FreeDOS. And of course you can and probably should use Linux instead of FreeDOS. I think as native networking OS, Linux will be easier to get online. You can run DOS and Windows programs in there with help of Dosemu, FreeDOS and Wine.
On my system, where I have FreeDOS and Linux (with a boot menu to boot either of them, and with DOS/Linux boxes that can be opened inside Linux with help of Wine and DOSEMU). I use the following drivers when I boot plain DOS (for FreeDOS in DOSEMU, less drivers are needed): XMS/HMA: himem EMS/UMB: emm386 or umbpci, a VERSION= line to simulate DOS 6.20, a COUNTRY=049 line for German time/date format, keyboard driver, disk cache, CD-ROM driver, CD-ROM cache, NANSI, a soundcard init tool (no resident drivers needed), mouse driver, no ramdisk (because not reliable), MORESYS, [autoexec things now], NLS, language and help system settings, soundcard settings, mouse driver, CD-ROM filesystem driver, share, some command alias definitions, MODE to setup screen mode. Maybe others which I forgot. You can assume that DOS browsers like Arachne support no scripting language. Some pages will not work. And you will not have problems with network-borne viruses. Email viruses often only work with Windows now, too. Normal viruses can be detected by an offline scanner like F-Prot, Bitdefender.com, Free-AV.com, ClamAV ClamScan ... when the scanner is available in a DOS version (should be the case for the abovementioned). PS: there is even a freedos-net mailinglist for people who are using FreeDOS for networking. I myself prefer Linux for that. Eric. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Robotic Monkeys at ThinkGeek For a limited time only, get FREE Ground shipping on all orders of $35 or more. Hurry up and shop folks, this offer expires April 30th! http://www.thinkgeek.com/freeshipping/?cpg=12297 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
