Re: [Freedos-user] Why I use FreeDOS

2011-06-06 Thread Ulrich Hansen
Am 06.06.2011 01:24, schrieb David C. Kerber: On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Mike Eriksen Neither XP nor light Linuxes typically run well (if at all) in even 128 MB of RAM, so saying 20 years is a bit of an exaggeration, even I ran my home web server with debian Lenny in 128MB for a long

Re: [Freedos-user] Why I use FreeDOS

2011-06-06 Thread Tom Ehlert
See HP, Dell, Asus, etc. They all happen to ship FreeDOS on their systems. See HP, Dell, Asus, and you will learn quickly that FreeDOS is a synonym for 'without operating system', intended for people that install their own OS (which is most likely NOT FreeDOS) On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at

Re: [Freedos-user] Why I use FreeDOS

2011-06-06 Thread Pat Villani
Oh, I know that. Last year I spent several months talking to them and HP was bold enough to say WHo needs you. It's free. Complete ignorance on their part, which makes me very happy I left the several years ago. Point is that they do distribute it and it is an opportunity to possibly showcase

Re: [Freedos-user] Why I use FreeDOS

2011-06-06 Thread Marco Achury
Really is a great marketing oportunity. There a lot of great linux distros that never have received the oportunity to be marketed by HP and Dell What iso image they include on their machines? By sure 1.0 Would be great to have a new iso image with newer kernel, usb sotrage support and more

Re: [Freedos-user] Why I use FreeDOS

2011-06-06 Thread Ralf A. Quint
At 06:05 AM 6/6/2011, Marco Achury wrote: Really is a great marketing oportunity. There a lot of great linux distros that never have received the oportunity to be marketed by HP and Dell They don't market anything. They just use a copy of FreeDOS on a media within the box when they ship a