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Is FreeDOS good for netbooks?
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yes. since netbooks are of no real use anyways.
That is the most truthful thing someone has said all day.
I've seen some people at Sup Forums and other places buying used laptops just for that. According some youtubers is pretty comfy.
I'm buying a netbook for that exact purpose as well.
just use a Bare Metal OS , its a meme either way
Better use TempleOS then.
It's not fully MS-DOS compatible, it's more of a meme OS.
Only exists so manufactures have something to pre install on their machines.
>meme OS
Freedos is made for embedded systems and the like, so it won't really be of much use on its own
It probably could work for a netbook, but I don't know of any good browsers made for it
I'm not looking for a fully MS-DOS compatible operating system.
If you actually somehow have ethernet working on it, maybe, MAYBE
I would be surprised if I got wifi to work.
Arachne is a full internet suite, and is not the only one
Pretty good DOS browser, but I only tried it once.
freedos just got a bunch of linux tools so its pretty neat :)
its also nice for flashing bios or gpu firmware without requiring proprietary software
FreeDOS should merge with the FreeVMS project. The DCL from VMS machines at least.
I don't think that is the same as FreeDOS...
They're plenty useful as a machine to ssh from that has a real (non-touchscreen) keyboard. From there you can control music, a file playing in mpv on another machine, play nethack, etc.
Actually that is true.
ATTENTION!
>ms-dos software archive
Go to: ftp://ftp.bu.edu/pub/mirrors/simtelnet/msdos/
Download something and report back whenever it works. Make sure to post screenshots.
Though luck finding software for it then, DOS software was never particularly open source
Think about network drives, most DOS drivers for network chipsets are from the 90's.
Nice, thanks.
Original developers of DOS based on VMS, FreeDOS devs might as well complete the job and add full DCL.
FreeDos is stupid. Just use lubuntu/xbuntu. So you can still use thunderbird, and browse sorceforge. Or turn off X for mad speed gainz.
My EDC ssh netbook:
> asus 1001px runing Xfce mint
> 1.6 single core atom
> 4gb ram (Upgraded)
> 120gb ssd (Upgraded)
Nah, I'd rather use FreeDOS since I want a dos device for personal shit (note-taking, school, etc.)
Its a fun project i guess. Good luck user.
I'm not going to use it for web browsing
>It's not fully MS-DOS compatible
MS-DOS isn't the only DOS-like system out there. Any modern DOS program won't target MS-DOS only extentions anyway.
Just do a debian netinstall and use it in text console mode, or use a light WM light icewm or something
I'll check out IceWM.
But I might still go for FreeDOS.
Somewhat outdated but relevant.
I too want to see FreeDOS more used, is a fine system.
Nope, literary 99.9% of DOS software is MS-DOS first and any other DOS second.
>Any modern DOS program won't target MS-DOS only extensions* anyway.
You have no idea what you are talking about.
its a great utility OS for flashing proprietary drivers or emulating a environment to execute a closed binary and using legacy software in a open manner
no one is expecting FreeDOS to be a day to day OS for general computing
i think its a great project that deserves more recognition to be honest
I looked at IceWM, didn't look that great. It's looks like some sort of Windows Classic theme.
freedos works with drdos software and also opendos
it also now has coreutils so basic bash functions like cp ls ect
Not the other guy but depending on the look you can get a nice working machine out of an old computer. I installed Devuan from the netinstall and experimented a bit. I stood with a tiling wm with easy defaults but the motif windo manager is my second option.
If you want lightweight then check vtwm, can be tweaked to look different editing a simple file.
>Any modern DOS program won't target MS-DOS only extentions anyway.
there are no "modern DOS programs" beyond maybe a small pool of ultra-niche or game-related software, literally anything general-purpose worth having on DOS targeted MS-DOS and its varying extensions
>drdos software
there's a whole five more pieces of software to the pile
>and also opendos
literally who
>it also now has coreutils so basic bash functions like cp ls ect
is this supposed to be compelling
while it's theming system is a bit limited (i've tried making a couple themes), there are a number of nice looking themes for it, check out box-look.org
Ok. I'll check it out as soon as I can.
>Somewhat outdated but relevant.
there's continued development over here;
github.com
That's really surprising.
I hope the make it less windowsy and more motif like.
just use mwm
Best to get with FreeDOS preinstalled and then install a Linux distribution of your choice the way you want it.
DOS is pretty much unusable for Internet as everything has gone to HTTPS and browsers like Arachne don't support it. Games are better off under DOSbox because the graphics are crisper, even for ASCII stuff
I use mwm as my second alternative.
This
>never heard of IBM-DOS
>>You don't know what you're talking about
Not my fault your some gaymur faggot who's only used DOSBOX.
Plenty of BIOS flashers are boot disks that run DOS and a flashing utility on top.
Easier to deploy via LanBoot that way.
Beyond nostalgia, I wonder how many uses can it have.
a minimal linux install will be far more useful.
Why not just install DOS from a Windows 98 boot floppy?
Not the same
True, I like the ability to modify the source of FreeDOS.