Message-ID: <00b701bc7c36$3aa68100$8df9c6c3@johan> From: "Johan Henriksson" To: Subject: Re: X and GNOME ports. Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 00:05:24 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com from Johan Henriksson Second: jhe75 AT hotmail DOT com Primary mail: johan DOT he AT telia DOT com Leadprogrammer and FX-specialist at Real software http://realsoftware.cjb.net #UIN 12035895 ***************************************************************** >Is anyone planning to port X and GNOME to DOS? > >The reason I ask is because I love Linux, and want to have my Windows box looking like >Linux. The ultimate would be to have GNOME and Enlightenment running on Bash. I have Bash, >so I'm half way there. > >To me, this seems like the most logical step up for DJGPP and Unix->DOS ports in general. > >What would be involved to port GNOME and X to DOS? I realise it would be a lot of work, >but no more than already has been done on DOS ports of the GNU tools. You want to be able to run X on a machine with W9x or? You can always partitionate your drive or get a UMSDOS Linux like DragonLinux.