Naw just more or less advising caution on creating too many flavors. LINUX is kind of a mess like that now. Offputting to newbies who get bogged down trying to find a flavor that fits. UBUNTU was actually pretty good a few years ago and likely the best for home and small business PC users. But it took a lot of research or trial and error to find this out. Last time I tried it last year it was getting kinda pig, resource hoggy and glitchy. You need a DVD disc to hold it all now. And the LINUX wankers tend to overcomplicate their little domain when talking to newbies. Fuck me XFree86 was a glitchy piece of shit back in the late 1990s. Scared me off for a decade.
So be careful not to wank it into many flavors with incompatible bits here and there. I'm writing my own freeware and have before. I appreciate all the volunteer work and level of difficulty for things like FreeDOS and LINUX. I'm working hard at not wanking my own work into a piece of crap. Always lots of ideas for tweaks once you get the core code running. You have to choose wisely! CB. On 2/3/14, Jim Michaels <[email protected]> wrote: > > > if you are complaining at me, that's OK. I can handle it. my purpose in > creating a distribution was to basically incorporate my DOS software > toolset. I can always drop my dos versions of stuff if people are just plain > opposed to it - things for me are hard enough as it is with not being able > to compile any dos items anymore. 50 some-odd utilities I spent years > developing and perfecting. > > unfortunately, it looks like it's going to be a while before I can even do > that, since the cygwin version of djgpp which I need (I get my compiler from > delorie.com) to compile stuff on x64 windows is in pre-alpha stage. > > I am still going over the legalities of selling under the GPL license. it > looks like it's allowed for according to the GPL license FAQ (maybe getting > confused with a post), and commercial stuff is allowed with LGPL. but I want > to make sure of what forms of selling are allowed - I see selling of license > exceptions like oracle does are encouraged, and selling of media is allowed, > but not sure about anything else because I forget that easy. > > I do like the fact that so many software items are available for freedos. it > makes freedos more usable. imagine if you had no cdrom drivers for instance, > and no eltorito... you could not even get off the ground without a floppy > which is nearly extinct, and you would need about 38+ floppies if you had a > library of programs, and you would HOPE things fit. > > try being thankful? not sure exactly what you are aiming for - minimalism? > > > >>________________________________ >> From: Charles Belhumeur <[email protected]> >>To: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers. >> <[email protected]> >>Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2014 3:26 PM >>Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos.img - spoke too soon >> >> >>Hate to complain, but, you people are letting this initiative get away >>from you like what happened to LINUX. Too many bits and pieces >>cobbled together from here and there without the code writers knowing >>enough about what the bits and pieces all do. And too many >>distributions that confuse potential users about which one to use. >>LINUX is as sorry an OS as Windows now, big, piggy and glitchy with no >>one on the planet knowing exactly what all the bits and pieces are >>doing, how they're interacting etc.. >> >>Don't tell me you have LINUX bits in FreeDos! I've seen some evidence >>of this. If you have to borrow from them to write an OS as simple as >>DOS then you're not up to the task and shouldn't bother. You're just >>spoiling the whole initiative, wasting your time and you'll end up >>withing nothing better than Windows or LINUX and quite likely >>something worse nobody wants. >> >>Given the above and what I've read in this forum I've kinda lost >>interest in FreeDos. >> >>Charlie B. >> >> >> >>On 1/18/14, Louis Santillan <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I think it's worth mentioning that Bryan Lunduke has a FreeDOS distro, >>> called LunDOS, with OpenGEM, a web browser. He uses it to develop >>> Linux Tycoon for DOS. He distributes it as VirtualBox images and QEMU >>> images. 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