Hi, > On Jan 16, 2022, at 3:37 PM, Jim Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > [..] > Third… Create a custom extremely slim Linux distro to boot the system and > provide basic hardware support. That OS would boot directly into a VM > platform like QEMU or DOSBox and run FreeDOS. Overall, I think this might be > the best option for UEFI only systems and modern hardware. > > It would provide support for sound and networking through Linux drivers. It > could be easily slowed down for older games. It could even be used to run > FreeDOS on non-x86 based hardware. Some of the disadvantages of doing this > would be the need to technically maintain two operating systems. Since even > the lite weight Linux distros are more bloat than we would want or need, we > would have to do our own. It would also require creating some Linux programs > to easily manage things on the host OS. > > Perhaps this should be done as a completely separate project from FreeDOS. > Something like a RetroPC project. However, their may already be such a > project in existence we could use. We could then either release a version or > just point people at it for modern hardware. > > > > This is an interesting idea, but I think it's best to do this outside the > FreeDOS Project. A project like this would be useful to more things than just > FreeDOS, so a separate project seems best. And that way we're not confusing > "FreeDOS development" with "Linux development" or "UEFI development" or "VM > development." > > Jim
I agree. After some additional thoughts, it should definitely be something separate from FreeDOS itself. So, I went and created a couple potential GitLab groups. I don’t know how much time or effort I’ll be able to dedicate to working on one. But, at least I reserved a couple potential group names for the project. Once I decide which I like best, I’ll delete the others to free them back up. :-) Jerome
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