[GEM Development] version of opengem for easy use for windows
users
Blair Campbell
blairdude at gmail.com
Fri May 12 13:17:57 PDT 2006
> Not impressed at /all./ I'd go with DR-DOS like a shot myself. Also
> open, also GPL, current and supported and being actively developed.
DR-DOS is definitely NOT GPL, and has a semi open licence; it can only
be used for personal use, and to my best knowledge only the kernel and
command.com source is available. If DR-DOS was GPL, then FreeDOS
would probably not exist.
> The DOS shell is more familiar if you come from a PC-ish background,
> certainly, but the Linux shell is so much more powerful that frankly
> there is just no comparison. It takes some learning - I only know 10% of
> the functionality, if that, compared with maybe 90% of DOS, but still, I
> can do more in Linux than I can in DOS. It's worth learning.
>
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