FreeDOS Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Open Sourcing DOS 4

  Interesting MS-DOS history to be uncovered. FreeDOS, an open source DOS clone, has been around for a while: https://freedos.org/ https://github.com/FDOS. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• The Windows XP activation algorithm has been cracked | The unkillable OS rises from the grave… Again

  I wonder if that machine can run FreeDOS. Source: over 1 year ago

• How do I sandbox certain games?

  Some kind of VM with no sharing or network access... VirtualBox, Bottles, or your host of choice... Install DOS (FreeDOS or whatever you wish I guess). Source: over 1 year ago

• Who here has mixed feeling about Linux dropping i486?

  Then there is FreeDOS, which also isn't Linux, but it is still open source and a lots of fun to use. Source: almost 2 years ago

• whe you know your place

  You know you are absolutely right. I’m going back to DOS. Source: about 2 years ago

• How to install GNAT 3.14b on FreeDOS 1.3

  Today in the year 2022 the way to install the GNAT compiler on a Debian/Ubuntu system is to execute "sudo apt install gnat gprbuild" in the terminal, followed by downloading and installing the GNAT Studio IDE from https://github.com/AdaCore/gnatstudio/releases. This is described at https://alire.ada.dev/transition_from_gnat_community.html and also how to install the GNAT compiler on other platforms. In the era of... Source: over 2 years ago

• Found a New Joke!

  Yeah, now if you want to run DOS, you just go grab FreeDOS. Source: almost 3 years ago

• What DOS version should I look for?

  I believe that FreeDOS would also run on a 5150. Source: over 3 years ago