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Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 13:07:15 +0100
From: "DR. Andras Solyom" <solyom AT eik DOT bme DOT hu>
Reply-To: solyom AT eik DOT bme DOT hu
Organization: Technical University of Budapest
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: What's all the hype about OpenDOS
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mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 29 Jan 1997, DR. Andras Solyom wrote:
> 
mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca wtrote: 
> WRONG.  mc CAN put an ftp fs in a panel under slackware.  I'm using
> Slackware 3.1.  Regardless of which distribution you use, you can
> always upgrade older programs fairly easily so I don't see any
> difference here.
Yes you can. (but not in Slackware 3.0) Linux is changing so rapidly
that if you want to keep up with it you must upgrade/reinstall your
system in every second week...
> 
> > > Doesn't Slackware include X too?
> > Yes it has X. But you can use different window managers with it.
> 
> Wrong again!  The default WM with Slackware 3.0 was fvwm.  If you look
> at the utility menu on fvwm you will see the option to switch to a
> different WM.  TWM, OLWM, OLVWM, and others.  As long as YOU HAVE
> installed those other window managers, then you can run them.

Oh yes, I must know about them from somewhere, find them, download them
and install them. What can be easier...
I do not want to reinstall/upgrade my OSes too frequently. And if I
upgrade it I do prefer to get a new CD and reinstall all with all the
new features I need. And here the distributions has different strong
points.
> 
> I'm running Linux and DOS on the same machine.  It is very easy to use
> both OS's.  I use LOADLIN to switch to Linux from DOS.
I run DOS/Win95/Linux/OS2 and NT on the same machine (with 'System
Commander'). (Unfortunately I need them all :( ) It is really easy.

> Almost all of the programs that I run in DOSemu work just fine.  The
> only ones that don't work are programs that use devices that use DMA
> such as soundcards, and other cards.  Some DOS extenders don't work
> right too but this seems to change with successive releases of DOSemu.
> 
It is good news. Are you working with these programs on Linux or on DOS?

					Andras