Forget Linux.

Berserk Berserker · September 06, 2008, 08:22:58 AM

DOS is where its at

http://www.freedos.org/

SnakeClock · September 06, 2008, 11:34:08 AM

Diece of Shit.

GearBoxClock · September 06, 2008, 11:40:38 AM

Wow.Worthless as hell.

The Spoiler · September 07, 2008, 04:39:10 AM

How is this any better than DOSBox?

catclock · September 07, 2008, 10:04:25 AM

Quote from: Mechanus;1397835How is this any better than DOSBox?

because you can actually BOOT UP INTO IT >w
This is so pro I'm uninstalling Windows right now just to get to my classique baby ^w^

SnakeClock · September 07, 2008, 10:05:59 AM

Quote from: Shana;1397887because you can actually BOOT UP INTO IT >w
This is so pro I'm uninstalling Windows right now just to get to my classique baby ^w^

I was going to ask my school if I could have any of their old Macintosh 512s they had there when I was a kid. Classique, baby. \m/>,<\m/

Wind-up Clock · September 07, 2008, 10:09:33 AM

I actually still have an old windows 3.1 machine still running. It's at my grandma's house, and the power button is broken so we have to tape over the CD-rom drive to keep it going, but it still runs, albiet too slow for DOOM.

Loki Clock · September 08, 2008, 02:16:51 AM

Wait, am I getting this right, in that the OS it's self is compartmentalized and extensible? So basically DOS redone with the Unix ethic of one program for one function?

Berserk Berserker · September 08, 2008, 06:34:17 AM

Quote from: loki_clock;1398396Wait, am I getting this right, in that the OS it's self is compartmentalized and extensible? So basically DOS redone with the Unix ethic of one program for one function?

its DOS, but its open-source. it's also got ports of some useful Unix commands too.

billiardball-1 · September 08, 2008, 01:43:54 PM

Can it run a GUI?

Berserk Berserker · September 08, 2008, 03:10:41 PM

Quote from: UbuntuTimeKeepingDevice;1398573Can it run a GUI?

hello

billiardball-1 · September 08, 2008, 03:42:34 PM

So what you're saying is that Windows 3.1 is a superior shell to Gnome and its ilk? Does it have sexy things like workspaces and a package manager? Can it run windows software? Linux packages?

Berserk Berserker · September 09, 2008, 06:51:48 AM

Quote from: UbuntuTimeKeepingDevice;1398696So what you're saying is that Windows 3.1 is a superior shell to Gnome and its ilk? Does it have sexy things like workspaces and a package manager? Can it run windows software? Linux packages?

that's not Windows 3.1 actually.

SnakeClock · September 09, 2008, 10:33:24 AM

Quote from: Todd;1399279that's not Windows 3.1 actually.

Windows 3.1 was just a GUI for DOS, wasn't it?

Berserk Berserker · September 11, 2008, 06:14:07 PM

hello somewhat decent mail/web browser/file manager

SoBe Clock · September 11, 2008, 07:28:06 PM

Quote from: SnakeClock;1399327Windows 3.1 was just a GUI for DOS, wasn't it?

All operating systems are a GUI for DOS. All computer systems today still run off of DOS, just more efficiently and more pretty.

billiardball-1 · September 11, 2008, 11:54:09 PM

Quote from: SoBeClock;1400978All operating systems are a GUI for DOS. All computer systems today still run off of DOS, just more efficiently and more pretty.

Incorrect. This was put to an end with the NT architecture. Windows gets its own kernel now, DOS is emulated in a virtual machine.

As far as non-windows operating systems, they don't run DOS. Most of the OSes out today are Unix based, including MacOS at this point.

SnakeClock · September 12, 2008, 12:30:34 AM

Quote from: SoBeClock;1400978All operating systems are a GUI for DOS. All computer systems today still run off of DOS, just more efficiently and more pretty.

Naw, Mac never ran off a command line-based kernel like DOS or Unix. Now, though, Mac OS X runs off of Unix.

SoBe Clock · September 12, 2008, 03:23:35 PM

I see, than I was misled, by a computer teacher of all people.

My bad.

screwdriver_clock · September 12, 2008, 04:05:18 PM

Quote from: SnakeClock;1401101Naw, Mac never ran off a command line-based kernel like DOS or Unix. Now, though, Mac OS X runs off of a Unix-Like system.

Fixed. And before you say "No thats Linux", the average Linux system is a window manager over the same type of Unix-like system, except theirs isn't liscensed to one sole company.

News:

Forget Linux.