Jim Hall Article Series for Opensource.com
Congratulations to Jim Hall, who wrote a "how-to" article series for Opensource.com about FreeDOS, an open source implementation of DOS. (Jim is the FreeDOS Project founder and project coordinator.) The series ran every Monday-Friday in June. Total length was 23,000+ words, across all of the articles.
The articles are available here:
- Get started with FreeDOS
- How to navigate FreeDOS with CD and DIR
- FreeDOS commands for Linux fans
- Set and use environment variables in FreeDOS
- Automate tasks with BAT files on FreeDOS
- How FreeDOS boots
- Configure FreeDOS in plain text
- Install and remove software packages on FreeDOS
- How to use the FreeDOS text editor
- Install FreeDOS without the installer
- Listen to music on FreeDOS
- How to use FreeDOS as an embedded system
- Why FreeDOS has 16 colors
- Use this nostalgic text editor on FreeDOS
- Why I love programming on FreeDOS with GW-BASIC
- Edit text like Emacs in FreeDOS
- Program on FreeDOS with Bywater BASIC
- Copy files between Linux and FreeDOS
- How to program in C on FreeDOS
- How to archive files on FreeDOS
- A brief history of FreeDOS
- How a college student founded a free and open source operating system (interview)