re: Re: Dosemu

[email protected] wrote on 11/10/2002 11:19:29 PM:
..
>Yes, Debian's Gnome-Desktop has it on the "Debian Menu"->Apps->Emulators
>
>However, when you install dosemu, it tells you, that FreeDos cannot be
>delivered with Dosemu, since it does not comply with Debian
>requirements, I suppose Copyright Policies.

I ran across this comment once before when searching for something
else; does anyone here happen to use Debian or are more familiar
with it that can tell me if this still holds (FreeDOS not complying
with Debian requirements) and if so, what in particular it does
not comply with.  If someone could help me find this information,
then maybe (depending on what the cause is) an acceptable FreeDOS
distribution could be produced.  But if no one knows or cares to
help me, then oh well (I'm a Slackware user myself).

>
>You have to follow instructions in a file named
>/usr/share/doc/dosemu/README.Debian to do this, where the only problem
>is, that the given ftp-address for dosemu-freedos-bin.tgz is incorrect.
>Given a correctly downloaded dosemu-freedos-bin.tgz (from sourceforge,
>for example) all other steps get you immediatly to a running Freedos
>under Debian.  Just tested it out.
There is also http://www.fdos.org/ripcord/dosemu/
Ok so I haven't updated it in a while, but so far only one person
has even mentioned that they have used it, and I just have too much
to do to make distributions to amuse myself.  :-)
..

Speaking of Dosemu and my little page, Bart should I add/recommend
users use Dosemu 1.1.x (where x=3.7 or perhaps soon 4) or is the
1.0.y (where y=2.1) still the recommended for users release?

Thanks,
Jeremy
[email protected]