Hi Karen, > What discouraged me from using freedos was > first the "for legacy games use only," suggestion on the site,
That probably was a while ago: Now I would say this is more the target audience of dosbox, in particular for Windows. > and second, the lack of attention to native things like USB and > networking. A classic for networking is the realtek rtl8139 chipset: If you find no DOS driver for your new network chip, you can always plug a PCI network card with that classic chip. When some modern (gigabit-) network chip is not supported in DOS, all DOS versions are affected, not only FreeDOS. > Dos is stable, I have been running the package I referenced for many > years, have found packages like ssh2dos for my networking, and now a fine > dos usb browser that works. I have been wondering if ssh2dos still is useful - I guess it only supports older protocols and algorithms. I remember Jack complaining that even the browsers of older Windows (!) versions do not support TLS: So as SSL 3 is being phased out for being old and insecure, he can no longer use HTTPS web. I can imagine that ssh2dos and web browsers for DOS have the problem in even more severe ways. > i use dos exclusively daily for all my computing. > and still sometimes get the sense here that freedos does not take itself > seriously enough for me to consider it for my professional needs. For you yes: The problem is that people often ask questions like "why is there no LibreOffice and Firefox for DOS". You know that there are none. They do not, they think there can be a professional DOS which basically is like Win or Linux, just "better" in some unknown, magical DOS way. For people who really need DOS, freedos is a very nice DOS. Regards, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
