Re: [Freedos-devel] Hello!

2015-05-17 Thread Steve Nickolas
On Sat, 16 May 2015, Louis Santillan wrote: On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 7:44 PM, JK Benedict xenfomat...@outlook.com wrote: [SNIP] - Base resources, such as file system options/changes - Connectivity tools * Modernized web browser (I am working on one now - a text based prototype)

Re: [Freedos-devel] Hello!

2015-05-17 Thread Antony Gordon
I think the original goal of FreeDOS has been met, based upon what I remember from back in 2000 or so when I came across the project. I have seen many posts back and forth about adding support for this and that because Windows sucks and so forth and so on. With that being said, here's what I see.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Hello!

2015-05-17 Thread JK Benedict
Completely agree as the web today reveals two things: - How heavy it is - How bloated it is --jkbs -Original Message- From: Louis Santillan [mailto:lpsan...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2015 1:52 AM To: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers. Subject: Re:

Re: [Freedos-devel] Hello!

2015-05-17 Thread JK Benedict
Excellent. Daily builds was just an example and I agree, daily builds would be overkill. The angle I was coming from is when core changes start to be made. How will this affect the 100 packages when core, resource, and drivers are re-tooled? DOS is heavily classic, solid... but some of the

Re: [Freedos-devel] Hello!

2015-05-17 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jesse, Centralized documentation makes sense, but why would you put 100 packages in a centralized source code repository if 95 of them have not a single source code change in a whole year? And why do nightly builds of all 100 then? DOS heavily relies on classic software that simply is okay

Re: [Freedos-devel] Hello!

2015-05-17 Thread JAYDEN CHARBONNEAU
There is WIFI drivers available,but they are often made for a specific wireless card.Your best bet is to make a driver that can interpret ethernet signals.Since information is coming from the internet to the ethernet cables,you can get information/data from the internet using a parallel port