Re: Why is dosemu in contrib?
--On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 12:20 pm -0500 "Jeff Noxon" <jeff@planetfall.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 10:08:59AM -0700, David Welton wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 01:05:19PM -0400, Stephen Carpenter wrote:
>>
>> > That might not put it in contrib.... isn't there a "Free" version
>> > of DOS that someoen other than Micro$loth made? i fsomething like
>> > that works with DOSemu...
>>
>> Caldera makes one, but it's not Open Source.
>
> Last I checked, Dosemu came with FreeDOS, which AFAIK is Open Source.
> It's not 100% working, but it's good enough to get most users up and
> running, and they can re-sys their drive with real DOS if they want
> it.
Speaking as someone who just installed it, yup, it seems to come with
FreeDOS.
I assumed FreeDOS is open source - don't know that for sure, though.
Jules
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