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An Actively Developed GUI for ... FreeDOS?

Posted by timothy on from the esotericism dept.

shanecoughlan writes "FreeDOS, the GPL DOS distribution, has a powerful little graphical user interface called OpenGEM being actively developed for it. Well, powerful is relative. OpenGEM is based off the DR GEM GUI from the 1980s, and is a 16bit single-tasking GUI that tends not to use extended memory. While KDE and GNOME might not be shaking in their boots, it's an interesting opensource project in its own right. And it runs on a 286 with 640kb of RAM..."

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  1. Re:Needs web browser by Linus+Torvaalds · · Score: 2, Informative

    So who has the cahones to develop a standards-compliant web browser for this gui?

    Who has the cojones to develop a standards-compliant web browser full stop? Gecko ain't compliant and never will be. Same goes for every other browser.

    I've been poking around for a viable web-surfing configuration for an 8mb pentium-1 system, and there really is nothing out there.

    Try an older Slackware.

  2. Uh - I always thought Seal had a nicer look... by starseeker · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://sealsystem.sourceforge.net/

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  3. Re:See Bill Was Right! by Xenkar · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually a capital K is used for the Kelvin temperature scale in the Metric System. kilo uses a lowercase k.

    The file size is 932 kiloBytes.
    It is 305 Kelvin outside.

  4. Re:No screenshots by nocomment · · Score: 4, Informative

    you want screenshots? you got screenshots.

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  5. Re:Remember kids... by triso · · Score: 2, Informative

    Arbitrary limitation is still going on, too. Try to buy a AMD 64 that can handle more then 4 GB of RAM. Most of the 64 bit motherboards have only 4 slots for SIMMs and it is even possible that some of the chipsets are limited to 4 GB RAM.

    I thought the main purpose of 64 bit CPUs was to break the 4 GB barrier.