Hello Alain, This idea of Jim's is what is closer to what I had in mind.
I don't know how good would DOS programs requiring VGA (such as games) run, and in this case, I would find it more interesting to include X (or FLTK, I'm not used to it). Aitor On 20 November 2015 at 20:51, Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Georg Potthast > <mail...@georgpotthast.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I made a very small Linux distro called Nanolinux which is only 14 MB in > > size: > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/nanolinux/ > > > > I could add Virtualbox to that and then you would get a bootable ISO with > > about 50 to 70 MB in size that would run your DosemuLimpo > > > > (Although I did not manage to download that with the Firefox browser, > > it does not recognize "ova" as a file extension. Maybe you put it into > > a ZIP archive) > > > > Wonder if anybody would be interested to use this solution. > > > > I, for one, would be very interested to see a text-mode "small" Linux > that boots up an instance of DOSEMU instead of login on the first > available virtual terminal. (I'd put a regular Linux login on the > second VT.) > > This would provide an interesting "sandbox" to run Linux on new > hardware. It would remove issues with hardware compatibility on newer > systems. > > I don't know how small such a thing would be, but since it doesn't > require a GUI (Nanolinux uses FLTK instead of X) and "only" needs to > support DOSEMU, I imagine it would be quite small, probably smaller > than the 14MB for your Nanolinux. > > > jh > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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