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The end of commercial DOS?
mobrien_12:
FreeDOS does have fat32 support now. I'm almost certain that it is 16-bit and know for sure that it supports 32-bit DOS programs.
bently:
The Free DOS project like DR-DOS have mad a good deal of improvemetnts to MSDOS. The really nice thing about DR-DOS was their task manager... Also Free DOS has support for DPMI.
Calum:
quote:Originally posted by flap:
Are you sure? It doesn't look to me like FreeDOS contains any GNU software.
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well, GNU's Not Unix, neither is FreeDOS, and all the FreeDOS software is released under the GNU GPL. So unless you define GNU software as that which has been personally written by Richard Stallman, I think this qualifies.
flap:
GNU software is software that's part of the GNU project. Software isn't automatically part of GNU just because it's licenced under the GPL.
[ June 20, 2004: Message edited by: flap ]
Calum:
if you say so.
as it happens i am not aware then that a GNU system actually exists. in fact systems such as Debian GNU/Linux are misrepresenting themselves in that case since they include a lot of non GNU software. FreeDOS is as much GNU as the next open source OS is. it includes emacs (which was the first popular application from the GNU project (i am not counting GCC, since it is not an application)) and it includes compiled for DOS versions of many of the GNU versions of standard *ix tools.
draw your line where you may but from what you say i gather you think it's not GNU unless it's hurd (and none of that perl/samba/bsd/XFree86/any other non GNU stuff is allowed).
[ June 20, 2004: Message edited by: Calum is NOT a moderator ]
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