I've used Ubuntu mini to setup virtual box vm servers. Kinda slick to be
able to VNC into a FreeDOS instance and run stuff over a network.
-L
On Monday, October 7, 2013, Bob Schwier wrote:
> This is neat. I can use it. I have a computer upstairs which runs the
> printer and is occasionally used
> on line. It is currently on hardy heron as I have an install disk for
> that and am afraid to upgrade on
> the reason that I think a real upgrade would be beyond the capacity of
> this turn of the century machine.
> bs
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> On Mon, 10/7/13, Richards, Toby
> <toby.richa...@slo.courts.ca.gov<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] HTTP_PROXY?
> To: "Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS." <
> freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net <javascript:;>>
> Date: Monday, October 7, 2013, 4:31 PM
>
> Yeah, but a GEM based
> hyperterminal would be that much more cool J -Toby From: Louis
> Santillan [mailto:lpsan...@gmail.com <javascript:;>]
>
> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2013 12:44 PM
> To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS.
> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] HTTP_PROXY? The mini cd is also under 30mb
> to download.
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD -L
>
> On Monday, October 7, 2013, dmccunney wrote:On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 11:24
> AM, Richards, Toby
> <toby.richa...@slo.courts.ca.gov <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> > If I were to find a use for FreeDOS, it would be to
> eventually get a Hyperterminal-like program running in
> OpenGEM. Laptops with serial ports are rare these days, and
> the ones we have are so old that even XUbuntu runs slow.
>
> Don't run Xubuntu. I went through that with an
> ancient notebook.
> Xubuntu would install and technically run, but was snail
> slow.
>
> Posters on the Ubuntu forums suggested the Ubuntu had a
> steadily
> advancing idea of what "low end" was, and that too
> much Gnome had
> crept into Xubuntu. They suggested what I did: get the
> minimal CD,
> install to get a working CLI environment, then pick and
> choose other
> things via apt-get. Lxde run on an ext4 file system is
> usable.
>
> And you may not want the latest Ubuntu release. I had
> to wipe and
> start over from scratch after attempting to upgrade to
> 13.04. It
> turns out the kernel in that release requires PAE support
> that my old
> machine doesn't have. But the upgrade didn't
> check for that till the
> last step of installing the kernel. The kernel install
> failed, the
> video system was hosed on reboot, and re-doing from scratch
> was the
> only real solution.
>
> > -Toby
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