Jérémie LEFRANCOIS said: > Where would I download a free OS/2 (possible ?) and a free LINUX both > "stripped down" as you say ? Or they have to be installed and the GUI > never started I suppose...
OS/2 isn't free (as opposed to Linux), although I think that especially older versions can be purchased for cheap. However, this wouldn't probably help too much if you want to use it in many instances for your customers, of course. The only possible advantage compared to Linux (or FreeBSD mentioned by somebody else etc.) might be that the concept of the OS is much closer to the DOS world (which you targeted before), so it might be both easier to develop for this environment and support it. In addition, OS/2 fully supports multi-tasking for DOS applications and gives them possibility to communicate to each other (e.g. using named pipes, which are transparently handled as files in the DOS applications using them). For the reduced installation - there are tools which make it possible to build an image containing exactly what you need/want, so this should be quite simple. > I found "TINYLINUX" somewhere , yet what do you suggest ? Of course the > latest Red Hat is out of scope... . . I can't give you advices for different Linux distributions, there are definitely much more knowledgeable people in this area, probably even on this list. Greetings Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
