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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. Screenshots! by paulius_g · · Score: 5, Interesting

    0.25 seconds of Googling:

    http://www.operating-system.org/betriebssystem/bsg fx/os/opengem-scr-01.png
    http://www.operating-system.org/betriebssystem/bsg fx/os/opengem-scr-02.png
    http://www.operating-system.org/betriebssystem/bsg fx/os/opengem-scr-03.png
    http://www.operating-system.org/betriebssystem/bsg fx/os/opengem-scr-04.png
    http://www.operating-system.org/betriebssystem/bsg fx/os/opengem-scr-05.png

    Enjoy! :-)

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  2. Needs web browser by ArmorFiend · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So who has the cahones to develop a standards-compliant web browser for this gui? Meet the new killer app. Same as the old killer app.

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