From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 27 21: 9: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A471637B401 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 21:09:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from c3po.artlogix.com (sense-mcglk-240.oz.net [216.39.168.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4710E43E42 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 21:09:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mcglk@artlogix.com) Received: from ralf.artlogix.com.artlogix.com (ralf.artlogix.com [192.168.0.4]) by c3po.artlogix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE1971A97D; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 21:08:56 -0700 (PDT) To: "C T" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I need some help... References: From: Ken McGlothlen Date: 27 Sep 2002 21:09:41 -0700 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <86vg4qvjp6.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "C T" writes: | [...] I am in the process of forming a non-profit organization that takes old | computers (286's etc...), setting them up for email, word processing, | internet browsing, spread sheets, and them giving them to people who can't | afford computers. | | One of my obstacles is finding an OS package similar to MS-DOS, but doesn't | cost money. | | Does FreeBSD distribute something simple that would operate on older | machines? Nothing that works on '286s---only '386s and later. You might be better off working with something that more closely emulates MS-DOS. Check this out. http://www.freedos.org/ And good luck. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message