Well, my first reaction was that a website and a wiki play very similar roles,
and that maybe we should use just one of it.
I guess I would prefer the Wiki (but you must make it relatively easy to get an
account on it)... but website are not too bad if they are on GitHub or GitLab.
Then they don't need you to give them permession to modify... they just need
you to accept their suggested modifications. But HTML is a bit harder to edit.
I then had the idea to spend about 15 minutes to do as if I was to write the
website and came with the following:
FreeDOS is a free (both having the liberty to, and with no fees) to use,
redistribute and modify reimplementation of DOS (mainly Microsoft DOS) that was
often coming with computers in the 80s. By default, it does not come with a
graphical environment, but rather you give text commands to see, copy, edit and
execute files. Link: Introduction to commands. The files executed are often
graphical programs more similar to what you can see on modern computers, except
maybe they often have less text fields because FreeDOS does not come with a
default graphical environment where does are predefined, but there is also a
lot of text-based interactive programs.
FreeDOS come with a lot of programs (Link to included programs category) but it
also allows you to run programs (like games) that were done to run in DOS when
it was popular.
There is mainly two ways to install FreeDOS. On a real computer, that can be a
very old computer: (Link install on a real computer), or modern computers have
programs that allows you to simulate a computer where a window allows you to
interact with keyboard and mouse on the simulated computers, with simulated
devices like hard disk, DVD reader, etc. (Link install in a virtual machine).
If you encounter problems while using FreeDOS, we have what is called a Wiki,
which is like a website but which is easier for people to contribute changes.
So it will probably have more information than the website (Link to the Wiki).
You can also communicate with other users. We mostly communicate through
mailing-lists. A mailing list is a group of people to which you can subscribe
to (or unsubscribe), and every message one send to it is redistributed by email
to every subscribed people. (Link to mailing lists). We also communicate
through a web-based discussion program called Forum, but it is less used: (Link
to forums). We also maintain a list of know bugs (link to bugs).
As FreeDOS is free to modify, any one can get the source code (link to source
code) and propose modifications to it.
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