I posted this to the wrong list... --- Marcio Luis Teixeira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 21:04:34 -0800 (PST) > From: Marcio Luis Teixeira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Thank you! + Suggestion > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > To the FreeDOS Developers: > > Thank you for an excellent product! I have recently > begun teaching an A+ certification course at > CollegeAmerica (www.collegeamerica.edu) at the Fort > Collins, Colorado campus and I was faced with a > shortage of MS DOS boot disks for a lab. > > I decided to burn copies of the FreeDOS CD and give > them to the students instead. I walked the students > through and install of FreeDOS on the lab machines > and > used FreeDOSes FDISK as a learning tool. I am > delighted that there were only few differences > between > MS DOS and FreeDOS, which made it suitable for the > class. The few differences I found made it an > excellent seque into a discussion on the differences > between FreeDOS and MS-DOS, which helped to > emphasize > key DOS concepts. I was also very impressed with the > "help" facility, which I demonstrated to the > students > and had them spend time exploring on their own. > > My only disappointment with FreeDOS is that the > LiveCD's version of FreeDOS is very limited and > lacks > many commands (such as the glorious "help"!). > Although > we had the luxury of installing FreeDOS to hard > disks > in the lab, the students will not be able to boot > the > CD on their home computers and have the full FreeDOS > experience to study from, unless they mess with > their > Windows XP partition, which I doubt anyone wants to > do. > > For pedagogical and demonstration purposes, I would > encourage the developers to consider including a > fully > featured FreeDOS installation on the LiveCD. > > Keep up the excellent work! > > Marcio Teixeira > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! > http://my.yahoo.com > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
