On 4/16/06, William Chops Westfield wrote: > > Care to recommend a minimalist linux for running mostly CLI utilities? > X might be ok, but just for Xterms... Under Windows there is cygwin, not a Linux distribution but provide many CLI utilities and X. Maybe you can install Slackware or other Linux distributions without KDE/Gnome or even without X. > I've been looking at running QEMU (x86 emulator for Macs) to get > access to some PIC stuff on my mac, most of which is little more > than DOS programs. FreeDOS is looking pretty tough to use, so the > next choice is dosemu under a linux, except that I'm only familiar > with "full" unix systems and minimalist task-oriented linux like > system rescue disks. Something that'll run in 16M of ram from > 20M of disk would be just about right... (I USED to run freebsd > on a real PC with a config not too different from that, so it > ought to be possible...) > I like DOSbox. It is better than DosEmu/FreeDOS.I used it to compile an old program in MPLAB C which does not work under Windows XP. It also supports Windows 3.1... http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/ DOSBox, a x86 emulator with DOS An open source DOS emulator for BeOS, Linux, MacOS X, and Windows Regards, Xiaofan -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist