From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Uwe Feldtmann Subject: Re: Distributions questions Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:08:48 +1000 Message-ID: <1127196529.8624.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <432EE728.6070707@aknet.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: cristi.mitrana@gmail.com Cc: linux-msdos 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 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,