Hi, Just to give some minor feedback for your valiant efforts ....
On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Alain Mouette <ala...@pobox.com> wrote: > Answering inline: > > On 13-11-2015 23:44, Rugxulo wrote: >> >> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Alain Mouette <ala...@pobox.com> wrote: >>> >>> I have been using FreeDOS on a Linux VM for a few years now and I made a >>> special image to make it public: >>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/33399957/FreeDOS/Ubuntu140432-DosemuLimpo-1.ova >> >> Exactly how big is it? (I'm guessing not very small. 2+ GB??) > > It's 992M bytes. I used LXDE-core to keep it small but with some basic > functionality: editor, file manager and a little configuration I hate to nitpick, it's probably moot for most people (even myself), but I hardly consider this "small". (Just for comparison, even though I usually abhor multimedia, I did have an old gift card for Rifftrax, so I recently purchased/downloaded the "low" quality version of _Star Wars Holiday Special_, which was "only" 800 MB. I could've technically downloaded a bigger version but couldn't be bothered waiting for hours and hours.) But yeah, it might be hard to "fix" that, so maybe I shouldn't even mention it! >>> * Fast access to host files using VirtualBox share It does whine at bootup about "home/alain" (shared) not existing, but I didn't test that functionality yet. >>> * Dosemu and FreeDOS fully preconfigured, can run graphic programs Didn't test any graphical stuff (e.g. Doom) yet. >>> * Network fully functional, can talk to any device on your network I had to switch from (default) "bridged" to "NAT" first, in VBox settings. >>> * 3 FreeDOS instance can access the network and talk to each other too >> >> So packet driver stuff (Watt-32, e.g. Wget) works? > > Y-E-S !!! Packet Drivers are fully configured and are working with any > ethernet configuration of the VM > There is even a PING command included, but it doesn't use Watt-32. > I would appreciate some more testing ;-) Well, I haven't tested much else (e.g. Links2) yet, but I did use the host (Linux) wget to grab the old FreeDOS/DJGPP build of wget from iBiblio. Once I created a simple wattcp.cfg (and "set WATTCP.CFG=..." accordingly in autoexec.bat) and created a wgetrc, then it seems to work fine, e.g. grabbing a .ZIP file from https://sites.google.com/.... >>> * There are a few Dosemu patches applied for graphics and keyboard >>> >>> Some of it (most) is in portuguese. If there is some interest I can make >>> an international version or some needed resource >> I don't think there is much interest in i18n. I think we're all too >> tired or just used to living without it, which is probably not ideal. >> :-/ > > I was not thinking of i18n, but most of it is in portuguese (that is > what I use), I was thinking of an English only release. > Most of the scripts I wrote lately are already with english comments ;-) The bigger problem, beyond even translated text, is the unfamiliarity of the keyboard layout. For instance, finding chars like '\' and '/' seems a bit difficult (at least to my uninformed self). A quick Google image search shows that some .br keyboards have a key to the left of the 'z' char, which I sadly do not, heh. Sure, numpad has '/' but it's not available in all contexts. Other minor comments: * NDN (2006) isn't even latest (2010) version: http://ndn.muxe.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
