[GEM Development] version of opengem for easy use for windows users

[Liam Proven]

Shane M. Coughlan wrote:
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> Liam Proven wrote:
>> So why not suggest that she uses Ubuntu?
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> I did.  On several occasions.  She's sticking with Debian like glue.  I
> have no idea why.

You know that Ubuntu is a branch of Debian and is synched with Debian 
unstable every 6 months? Same config files in the same places and so on, 
just different repositories with a lot more up-to-date packages in them. 
It's also exhaustively tested /on top of/ the testing that Debian gets, 
plus it has a large and active and helpful support community of its own, 
with, in my experience, nowhere near as much Attitude as Debian users have.

Personally, I use it almost exclusively now.

As for command prompts - I've recently tried to install both FreeDOS and 
GNU/DOS under the free edition of VMware Server and VirtualPC on my Mac 
G3. Both are a bit of shambles, I thought. I know DOS inside out, both 
MS-DOS and DR-DOS (and indeed PC DOS), and FreeDOS seems to have a lot 
of little differences. Its startup sequence is a mess, with spelling 
errors, error messages, stuff that's unsupported - e.g. the FreeDOS boot 
CD doesn't support CD-ROMs, which is frankly /incredible!/

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.

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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