From: Tudor Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: What's all the hype about OpenDOS Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 19:03:17 -0800 Organization: Communications Accesibles Montreal Lines: 17 Message-ID: <32EEBDF5.2AFF@cam.org> References: <32EDE79B DOT 6DF9 AT eik DOT bme DOT hu> Reply-To: tudor AT cam DOT org NNTP-Posting-Host: dynppp-18.hip.cam.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp DR. Andras Solyom wrote: > Second: If you have installed your OS, you can manage it even with > control panels, at leas in Windows and in Linux. (In Linux you can use > the RedHat distribution which has a Win95 like X window manager with > taskbar, start menu, control panel and the like, etc.) And the design [......snap......] I'm interested in this but really don't get it :) What is the difference between Slackware and RedHat? Doesn't Slackware include X too? And where can I get RedHat? I've only seen Slack around.. > The reason, IMHO, that we do not want to switch to Linux from DOS is > that we want our computer to be compatible with the majority of the > software (e.g. games )out there. But you have the dos emulator and LILO so you can easily work around that. -- tudor 'at' cam 'dot' org 'This is Scott Nudds of the Borg. C is irrelevant.'