Hi Florian, > Please remove from freedos.org: > >To run old DOS games (like DOOM, etc.) > >To run old business software that only supports DOS > The word "old" is very bad!
No it is not. FreeDOS is one of very few ways to run CLASSIC software which no longer runs properly in DOS windows of Windows and which is too complex for for example dosbox. So it is good to have DOS to be able to run old software. On the other hand, you are right, people have to be aware that DOS is also a very nice lightweight system for doing MODERN things as well. Your use examples: File managing - well I prefer Unix filesystems, so... Audio player: Yes cool for a party night but most of the time I want to surf and email simultaneously ;-). Developing / editing: it can be nice to have a full screen text editor as the only thing on your screen (our EDIT supports having multiple text windows open simultaneously :-)), less distraction compared to Windows / Linux where people often have many things open... WWW, email: as said, I prefer to do online things in an OS where I can do other things like music playing and text editing and running DOS simultaneously. > And there should be also a _vision_ at the homepage. f.e. adding > of new features. Then we should link to the post 1.0 todo / wishlist Wiki page. > version 1.0....but will this be all? I want 1.1 with updates, bugfixes, better docs and usability. > What are the goals? For me, having drivers for some more modern hardware, like a virtual SB16 to real AC97 audio bridge (use jemm386 and mpxplay for inspiration) and better USB / PCMCIA / SATA / UDMA drivers. In the long run also adding FreeBASIC and ClamAV CLAMSCAN and a dosfsck based SCANDISK of good quality and with good QBASIC compatibility. BASIC is no really cool language and many people will recommend REXX, BASH or PERL for modern DOS users, but there are many old Basic source code files which people want to keep using. There should also be a good mix of power features and reasonably easy use and good documentation. No need to transmogrify your Vista or Linux boot menu by magically touching NTFS or Reiser or whatever partitions. Also, NTFSresize is best done with Linux. But then, why don't we add one of those nice "toolbox Linux" distros to our own fdfullcd.iso for that? Another thing which should be better than in 1.0 is to have an easy way to do an install which from some point on asks almost no questions and which does NOT use internet nor USB during the "unzip" part of the install. Would make installing fast and more "foolproof". You can always add drivers later if you are a poweruser, and if you only want to replace your old MS DOS 6, you will not need to download, say, ASPI drivers anyway, because you will already have them and will know how to use them. See also: http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?n=FdDocEn.FdDependencies http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?n=FdDocEn.FdInstall > Maybe defrag lacks fat32 support (without bugs). I seem to remember thatDefrag is totally slow for fat32 but that it does have fat32 support now. Next would be undelete, if anybody wants to add fat32 support there, I would be happy to explain which parts of the code have to be changed how. > important things, like sound/hardware-drivers, other file systems > or multimedia-player or browser or taskmanager Agreed on the sound drivers, but not on the filesystems. DOS is DOS and is meant to be DOS. You will not want to have a multiuser DOS with access control lists in the filesystem and everything. Making MPLAYER run better in HXRT is certainly interesting but luckily already ongoing. There already is the Arachne browser and viewers like LXPIC. For the task manager, I think it is a lot better and a lot easier to just run several DOSEMU windows simultaneously. Resizeable and everything :-). Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
