[ubuntu-us-in] Local support

[Simón Ruiz]

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Bill Franklin <bill at allfreight.com> wrote:
> We are real small, 5 employees.  We want to migrate to some variant of Linux
> because we have a legacy DOS application that is our main application.
> Microsoft is supposedly ending support for DOS apps in Windows 8 (although
> there is supposed to be some kind of emulator you can run in or
> something-maybe).  We currently have 8 pc’s all with Windows XP except my
> wife has Windows 7.  Microsoft is ending support for XP in around 2.5
> years.  Also, I want to upgrade stuff on my schedule in the future not on
> Microsoft’s.

You may want to investigate dosbox.

http://www.dosbox.com/
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DOSBox

I've used it, in the past, to re-live old video games under Ubuntu.

I imagine it might do the job for less video/audio intensive applications.

Simón