dear newbeezz,
in the first instance i wanna give away some thanks to the people who
gave me answeres, and secondly i would like to answer the last one:
> 386 with 2 MB : linux-lite, (old) special Linux-bootdisk made by Paul
> Gortmaker.
>
> 386 with 4 MB : Slackware (www.slackware.com) or Debian (www.debian.org).
>
> 286 or 8086/8088 :
blablabla;-)
> However those people have to realise 1 thing: Y2K
>
> Y2K involves 3 different main issues :
>
> 1) hardware:
>
> 8086/8088, 286, 386 will most probably give problems because of
> older BIOS'es
>
> 2) OS:
>
> Linux is more or less Y2K-proof, I doubt Minix is, not sure about
> ELKS..
>
> 3) apps:
>
> I guess Wordperfect < 8.0 is not Y2K-proof... as are lots of other
> DOS-apps, probably only opensource-apps will be interesting for using
> with DOS.
hm, i think this is a good point for my friends to leave DOS forever
and even their computermachine (coffeemachine hahaha). i'll give them
all your answeres and so they'll have to decide by themselves.
> But why do those people want to get rid of DOS ?
> Do they think DOS = MS-DOS ?
yes indeed, with DOS they mean MS-DOS, and it also sounds strange if
somebody with a 286 or 386 should switch over on linux. but you know,
dear albert, i think using linux is more than only a choice to use a
better OS. why not use macOS, or os/2 or whatever. of course, linux
is free of charge if you want, and it has a sympathic penguin
as mascotte. but i think that for many people it is in first instance
a political choice. political in the way that many people are getting
sick of microsoft-dollars, and getting sick of billgates megalomania.
and even if they would switch to apple, there you still are
confrontated with a company wich asks lots of money for their written
stuff and are sitting like a chicken on its golden eggs on their
source, and barricades the road for many enthousiastic programmers,
who only want to write good programms that anyone can use, from
low-budgetted student and lonely mother to a company of million
dollarz! linux is a kind of feeling! actually it is a revolution!
it changes the mentality about what software is.
excuse my broken english
i wanna greet you
mek
