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XFDOS: graphical FreeDOS distribution

Georg Potthast has announced XFDOS, a graphical distribution based on FreeDOS. Please note that THIS IS NOT THE OFFICIAL FREEDOS DISTRIBUTION, but a user-created "spin" of FreeDOS using a graphical desktop. XFDOS consists of a graphical desktop called SLWM combined with the FLTK based applications I ported to DOS plus other DOS applications. This provides a desktop similar to Windows for FreeDOS. Includes the new Dillo for DOS browser. You can add just about any application to this desktop by editing a small configuration file for it. You can move and arrange the icons as you like on the desktop. XFDOS comes in two versions. One is an ISO file to be burned on a CD to provide a Live-CD of XFDOS. Or you can download a hard disk version which allows you to start (and exit) the XFDOS desktop and its applications from your hard disk. http://code.google.com/p/nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos/downloads/list

Georg adds:

XFDOS tries to provide common desktop applications used on Windows to FreeDOS users. These applications cannot provide all the features of their counterparts on Windows but they serve the same purpose. Below is a short comparison. (I hope the dots allow to format the table in text mode)

Application............Windows(R)..........XFDOS/FreeDOS

Web browser............Internet Explorer...Dillo
Word processing........MS Word.............FlWriter
Spreadsheet............MS Excel............Spreadsheet
Personal info manager..Outlook.............FlTDJ (no mail)
Editor.................Notepad.............Editor
Image editor...........MS Paint............Antipaint
PDF reader.............Acrobat.............MuPDF
File manager...........Explorer............Open file
Media player...........MS Media Player.....Mpxplay
Calculator.............MS Calculator.......FlCalc
Image viewer...........Photo Viewer........FlView

You are welcome to use XFDOS!

Posted by Jim Hall 2013-04-24

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