Re: Distributions questions

[Uwe Feldtmann <uwe@microshare.com.au>]

Do you know what the packages are called for Debian?  
Or would I be better of compiling from source?

I am running Ubuntu 5.04 and would like to use dosemu/freedos but they
don't appear in the package list. 

Thanks in advance.


On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 20:20 +0300, Cristi Mitrana wrote:
> On 9/19/05, Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru> wrote:
> > Hello.
> > 
> > UNIREA Sannicolau Mare wrote:
> > > I.e. how can we make latest version of xdosemu to work on RedHat6,
> > > RedHat7 and RedHat8?
> > IIRC RedHat6 and 7 has the 2.2 linux kernels.
> 
>  RedHat 7.1 had 2.4.2 right out of the box.
> 
> > Dosemu should work on those, but there may be
> > a few problems, mostly with the DPMI apps.
> > And apart from bugs and missing features, the
> > DPMI on 2.2 was IIRC very, very slow.
> > Additionally, IIRC RedHat7 had the broken gcc
> > that used to miscompile dosemu, but you can use
> > a binary distribution.
> 
>  They fixed that with several updates, but that's a long time ago :).
> RH 7.0 was the culprit.
> 
> > On RedHat8 it should work almost normally, but
> > the kernel upgrade is still recommended.
> 
> > > Or what older xdosemu versions work on such systems?
> > Older dosemus is a darkness. Unless your tasks
> > for it are really trivial and not mission-critical
> > (eg you can tolerate the frequent crashes, and
> > you don't afraid of a security holes), you almost
> > certainly don't want to have an older dosemu on any
> > of your machines.
> 
>  In my experience, debian provides a cleaner and simpler
> default installation, about 200mb for a basic setup (this includes networking).
> Also, 2.6 is included and also dosemu is up to date.
> I have several 'old' computers with the current debian stable distro and 
> they work without a hitch (without Xwindows, I have to say).
>   If networking is a good option then you can install something like LTSP
> (I know for a fact that some people using LTSP are running DOS apps 
> via dosemu for a living :) and have a more poweful server which 
> handles all the load and processing needs of the clients. All
> (x)dosemu instances
> cand be run over the net and the workstation clients could be as dumb as an P1.
> This can assure that you can run a modern distro with all the updates
> on the server
> and you can upgrade in one step the application used. Depending on the number
> of workstations and their distribution this could be a nice option.
> 
> hth,