>> > Is anyone working on a functional GUI for FreeDOS? I currently use Windows >> > 3.1 as I do consider it to be a gui and not an operating system and it is >> > about 90 percent functional. It would be nice to have a completely open >> > source OS though. [...] >> >> There are several free open source GUIs for DOS, but you >> only get a small number of programs for them. There is a >> free open version of GEM for DOS. Some classic programs >> for GEM can still be used with that. There also are some >> new free programs for GEM... >> >> The other open source GUIs for DOS usually start out as >> graphical file managers with a menu to run programs, so >> eventually you get a notepad, clock, calculator, agenda >> and a few simple games for them. Some may even support >> a bit of web browsing or email, but they all do not get >> that huge number of programs available as Windows. >>
We used to have a "GUI" category in the FreeDOS software list, but so many people started (and abandoned) "FreeDOS GUIs" that I stopped tracking them and eventually dropped them from the software list. But OpenGEM was quite nice as a full "desktop" system - notably, GEM was used as a GUI desktop for DR-DOS once upon a time, and was the desktop for Atari TOS. I also liked Desktop2 as a graphical file manager and program launcher, but it wasn't really a "desktop." We may one day reconsider the inclusion of a default "GUI" in FreeDOS, but that will not happen for FreeDOS 1.2 or 2.0. > > Actually I was thinking of a refinement of OZONE, as a DOS based GUI, that > would function as a FreeDOS menu system with easy access to games, media. etc. > > BTW what do you know about CarbonOS? Is it sanctioned by the FreeDOS project? > I started an install on a spare HD, but it seems to not be any more than a > FD kernel w/ 4dos, and its system file hierarchy is difficult to adjust to in > its present state. > I remember oZone. It looked very pretty (see screenshots here: http://ozonegui.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php) but I don't recall having used it. An interesting advertised feature of oZone was that could run oZone apps across platforms (Linux, DOS, ..) without having to recompile. CarbonOS has been around for a while (we mentioned it on the website, here: http://www.freedos.org/news/?item=2014/09/carbonos-based-on-freedos/) but AFAIK they have not advanced. The last time I was in contact with them, I reminded them that they must include source code as part of their distribution of programs under the GNU GPL, and they promised to do that at the next release. But I don't recall if there was a next version after that. I think development on CarbonOS has stalled. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
