Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website

Hi, (Sorry for belated reply.) On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 2:07 PM Jan van Wijk wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:48:34 -0500 Rugxulo wrote: > > >> >OW 1.9 runs natively in DOS. Or did you mean the makefiles need > >> >adjustments? (Long cmdlines for OW tools need an asterisk/star '*' !!) > >> > >>

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website

Hi Robert, On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 18:50:24 +0200 Robert Riebisch wrote: > >> The sources are in OpenOffice though, so I could have a look at >> what th export alternatives are, to bundle into the distribution ZIP ... > >Maybe you want to have a look at several multi-format documentation >generators:

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Hi Jan, >>> No not at all, I have just uploaded the latest version, including an update >>> to some documentation/presentations in PDF format, it is at: >> >>PDF is a bit bloated and DOS-unfriendly, but I understand your need to >>use something modern and accessible (or whatever). > > Something

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website

On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:48:34 -0500 Rugxulo wrote: > >> No not at all, I have just uploaded the latest version, including an update >> to some documentation/presentations in PDF format, it is at: > >PDF is a bit bloated and DOS-unfriendly, but I understand your need to >use something modern and

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website

Hi, On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 12:00 PM Jan van Wijk wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 21:15:30 -0500 Rugxulo wrote: > > > >> The user-interface library 'TxWin' I use for my disk-tool is open-source. > > > >I've never used it, but I pointed Jim Hall to it (although I don't > >think even he used it) a

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website

On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 21:15:30 -0500 Rugxulo wrote: > >> The user-interface library 'TxWin' I use for my disk-tool is open-source. > >I've never used it, but I pointed Jim Hall to it (although I don't >think even he used it) a few years ago. But that was old versions >(txwin1xx.zip and txwin2xx.zip).

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Hi, On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 5:16 AM Jan van Wijk wrote: > > Yes, unfortunatily I have no network connectivity in my FreeDOS VM, > but I handle that by mounting a virtual-disk shared with other VM's. > But normally I only need it to test my bootable-CD, so I just boot > the ISO in a VM ...

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website

On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 11:55:25 -0400 dmccunney wrote: > >Wine is good enough for a lot of what folks do, but perfection isn't >possible. Is there a list anywhere of what Odin is known to support? Hmm, on my ArcaOS 5.0, version 0.8.9 is installed, and its doc says: 'there is a large database of

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website

On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 6:32 AM Jan van Wijk wrote: > On Mon, 1 Oct 2018 11:22:47 -0400 dmccunney wrote: > > > >> There is a new commercial OS/2 variant now, ArcaOS from arcanoae.com . > >> 32-bit, no 64-bit, no GPT, no refund it it doesn't work. > > > >64-bit can be lived without. 32 bit is

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website

On Mon, 1 Oct 2018 11:22:47 -0400 dmccunney wrote: > >> There is a new commercial OS/2 variant now, ArcaOS from arcanoae.com . > >I missed that one. Thanks! > >> 32-bit, no 64-bit, no GPT, no refund it it doesn't work. > >64-bit can be lived without. 32 bit is nice. The question is what 32 bit

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website

Thanks Gents! You ave shed additional light on a rather complicated subject. On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 6:24 PM Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi Don, at the risk of making this thread even longer... > > Yes, ebook readers tend to use Linux. Nicer brands even > publish development kits ;-) But Linux is a

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Hi Don, at the risk of making this thread even longer... Yes, ebook readers tend to use Linux. Nicer brands even publish development kits ;-) But Linux is a whole OS. So as long as Amazon publishes any changes to the kernel with sources, they can run any of their closed source, DRM protected

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website

On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 4:41 PM Don Flowers wrote: > > So this statement caught my attention:" Other things that have a Linux kernel > uder the hood are the Amazon Kindle and B Nook eBook reader devices (and > source > for their Linux kernel and firmware is available." > Amazon may have

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website

So this statement caught my attention:" Other things that have a Linux kernel uder the hood are the Amazon Kindle and B Nook eBook reader devices (and source for their Linux kernel and firmware is available." Amazon may have released some part of the code but not all, else DRM would not be

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website

On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 2:32 PM Cuvtixo D wrote: > > I'm glad this is being cleared up a bit here. Yes, I should have made the > civil/criminal distinction. Yes, it's too expensive to be practical for > commercial companies. But still, at least in my fantasies, Stallman would > have done a big

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website

On 10/1/2018 10:14 AM, Cuvtixo D wrote: Brand new to this mailing list, but I wanted to respond to a conversation about Open source licences, and apologies to the authors, I lost track of who said what in the following: >>> (Speaking personally, I'd love to see *FreeDOS* re-licensed under >>>

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I'm glad this is being cleared up a bit here. Yes, I should have made the civil/criminal distinction. Yes, it's too expensive to be practical for commercial companies. But still, at least in my fantasies, Stallman would have done a big fundraiser to bring such a case to court, since he seems to be

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On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 1:16 PM Cuvtixo D wrote: > > Brand new to this mailing list, but I wanted to respond to a conversation > about Open source licences, and apologies to the authors, I lost track of who > said what in the following: > >>> (Speaking personally, I'd love to see *FreeDOS*

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS website

Brand new to this mailing list, but I wanted to respond to a conversation about Open source licences, and apologies to the authors, I lost track of who said what in the following: >>> (Speaking personally, I'd love to see *FreeDOS* re-licensed under >>> something other than the GPL.) >> I don't

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On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 3:29 AM Thomas Mueller wrote: > Excerptfrom dmccunney: > > > > MS isn't the only vendor of a DOS-compatible OS. DR-DOS and ROM-DOS > > > are still sold online. (Do OS/2 variants also count? Maybe.) > > > Which OS/2 variants? The one I'm aware of is eComStation, > >

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website (rants)

On Fri, 15 Jul 2016 21:08:03 -0400, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 7:32 PM, Jose Antonio Senna > wrote: >> >> This said, I also admit browsing from DOS >> is going to be less and less practical. >> Lynx 2.8.5 supports

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS website

Hi all Just a heads up that I'm doing some planned maintenance on the FreeDOS www website tomorrow, Saturday, July 16. Not sure when I'll start, but watch Twitter @freedos_project for updates. This isn't a website update, this is just moving the website to a new Amazon instance. I mentioned that

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website (rants)

I mostly agree with the sentiments towards HTML5 here. One of my biggest gripes is that websites are now attempting to emulate the appearance and functionality of native apps with useless animations and twenty JavaScript libraries that make my Core i5 machine slow. But I think this is just the

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website (rants)

Hi, On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 7:32 PM, Jose Antonio Senna wrote: > > This said, I also admit browsing from DOS > is going to be less and less practical. > Lynx 2.8.5 supports HTTPS (and is the only > tried DOS browser which does), I'm pretty sure Links2

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website (rants)

My bank was planning to swithch to html 5. I told them that if I located a bank using html 4 that I would close my accounts and move to that bank. They are still using html 4. If everybody did that maybe this constant upgrade crap would stop. cheers DS On Sat, 16 Jul 16 00:32:09 +

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website (rants)

On 7/15/2016 5:32 PM, Jose Antonio Senna wrote: >This said, I also admit browsing from DOS > is going to be less and less practical. > Lynx 2.8.5 supports HTTPS (and is the only > tried DOS browser which does), but I cannot > access Wikipedia with it, because the > algorithms they

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website

Hi, Dennis, I wish we wouldn't have to constantly state how obsolete DOS is and how it's horribly dead and useless. I doubt Jasenna is directly profiting from your "obvious" advice to upgrade. (Sigh.) On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 10:11 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > I browsed

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from dmccunney: > And sometimes it's correct advice. The computer world changes with > enormous rapidity, and one area where change is fastest is web > browsing. These days, the push is to support HTML5, and CSS3, with > current JavaScript. HTML5 is a big push because the keyword > makes it

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On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Jose Antonio Senna wrote: > On July 13 dmccunney said: > > One alternative is to install a new browser. > >Seems the knee-jerk reaction from support people. >And a new OS, and a new computer... And sometimes it's

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On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Jose Antonio Senna wrote: > On July 13 dmccunney said: > > > The issue here may be the ancient FF version. > > Sites tend to use browser identification code > > that will complain if it thinks you > > are running an

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > Interesting. When I replied to the email, I did check the website links. The > links to SF were broken with a message from SourceForge. But I just checked > again, and things seem back to normal. So that's good! :-) I'll be

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Interesting. When I replied to the email, I did check the website links. The links to SF were broken with a message from SourceForge. But I just checked again, and things seem back to normal. So that's good! :-) On Jul 13, 2016 12:58 PM, "dmccunney" wrote: > On Wed,

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On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > That's not a good sign. SourceForge did some planned maintenance yesterday > about noon, and things didn't go as planned. So the FreeDOS Wiki, bug > tracker, and Subversion repo are currently offline because they are hosted >

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On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 5:57 PM, Jose Antonio Senna wrote: > > I just accessed the freedos.org page, and it seems OK. > > However, the links that point to Sourceforge > return the message: > "We're sorry -- the Sourceforge site is currently in >

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That's not a good sign. SourceForge did some planned maintenance yesterday about noon, and things didn't go as planned. So the FreeDOS Wiki, bug tracker, and Subversion repo are currently offline because they are hosted at SourceForge. The www website is hosted elsewhere so is unaffected. On Jul

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website changes

It looks much better, but the layout seems to be a bit odd on mobile (see http://imgur.com/oi2voVx). I have some free time later today, I could make a snippet of CSS to make it a bit more responsive/fluid for smaller screens. Sent using CloudMagic On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:04 PM, Jim Hall

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website changes

Oops. I may have dropped the css section that uses a smaller logo on small/mobile screens. That prevents the artifacts you see here. I'll put that back over the break. Thanks for pointing that out. Also over the break, I'll make the Welcome section easier to read, especially on mobile. On Dec 19,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website changes

FYI, if you want to send me files, send them to me off list. On Dec 19, 2014 7:31 AM, Jim Hall jh...@freedos.org wrote: Oops. I may have dropped the css section that uses a smaller logo on small/mobile screens. That prevents the artifacts you see here. I'll put that back over the break. Thanks

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS website changes

Hi all! Just a quick note to let everyone know about some changes to the FreeDOS website. I've been working on improving the FreeDOS website, and tonight I started making the first user-visible changes. Up until now, the changes have been pretty minor, and probably invisible to most folks (some