[ubuntu-us-in] Local support

[Randy Sparks]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Simón Ruiz <simon.a.ruiz at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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