> Is DosEmu actually capable of working with Portuguese > diacritics and supporting a standard Brazilian keyboard in > the first place?
It's probably possible, but it might require configuring dosemu more, or maybe even patching dosemu's source. > And if DosEmu can't do it, would dual boot (Grub) be a > good idea? I read the announcement in July that Grub 2.00 > supports FreeDOS. GRUB 2 indeed supports loading FreeDOS, which just means you can directly specify the kernel.sys file to load instead if needing to chainload a FreeDOS boot sector. With the current kernel and current GRUB versions, you still need to install FreeDOS into a primary partition, though. > Again, would dual boot be a good idea? If so, what could I > use? Metakern? GRUB is possible, too. > My personal preference would be dual boot, but I wonder whether > it would bring its own problems. Those are other people's > computers, which I don't want to mess up. In older PCs, idling was not regarded as necessary; with 1990s and more recent (powerful) CPUs proper idling is important. Therefore you should enable the idlehalt= setting in the FreeDOS kernel's config, and/or load FDAPM with some setting. [One of them might suffice, but using both shouldn't be particularly harmful even if unnecessary.] "fdapm apmdos" (optionally prepend "lh ") should result in the highest savings (though it might decrease performance a bit). Failure to enable proper idling will cause one CPU (that is at least one core on multi-core CPUs) to permanently be 100% loaded in polling loops, wasting energy and heating up the CPU a lot. Even with FDAPM and such, some applications' polling loops disable idling - custom patching might be necessary to implement proper idling then. Regards, Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
