Eric, Tomas, thanks for this helpful info! If installing Linux helps to get my files out of FreeDos (hm… „free my files!!“ - or is it a "Lockdown-Dos“?), I will do.
My „dream“ was it to „marry“ FreeDOS with a portable USB Stick (Backup and Carrying), whilst booting from a Harddisk and working on C:. But maybe this is n’t so important after all, how complicated it all seems to me. Daunting. NB: I wonder if there was a „USB 1.0“ Usb-Stick, if FreeDOS prefers USB 1.0? Maybe Bret E. Johnson knows something? He was very helpful with his MOUSKEYS application, and seems to kow about USB on Dos a lot. Regards, Thomas > Am 14.04.2021 um 18:15 schrieb Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de>: > > > Hi Thomas, > >> Any particular Linux flavor you suggest for this? >> (I would go for a „command line interface“ only.) > > That sounds masochistic ;-) As long as you do not > need 3d accelerated drivers, a graphical desktop > for Linux should work on almost all hardware just > automatically. Of course you will need a mouse :-) > You can still go plain text with a simple hotkey. > > The "usual distro" of the day would be Ubuntu, with > MINT being a spin-off and with lightweight variants > such as Xubuntu or Lubuntu which default to install > less heavy graphical things than the normal Ubuntu. > MATE also is just yet another variant. > > Under the hood, those are more or less the same, you > simply get different default packages/apps installed. > If you really want to avoid Ubuntu: Fedora, OpenSUSE, > Debian, etc. are more different from Ubuntu flavors. > > How much RAM, disk space and CPU speed (including > the number of cores) do you have available? In other > words, do you want something lightweigth? Or will > any widespread Linux flavor do? > > Distros now tend to require at least i686, so if > you have something older than Pentium Pro or II, > that will limit the choice of distros. If you have > a 64-bit capable (x86_64) CPU, you actually get > more choice than if you do not. And for Raspberry > and other ARM CPU, you get yet other choices. > > Cheers, Eric > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
