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Run Linux & Linux binaries on DOS (Announce)

posted by Oso2k, 23.09.2020, 17:16

> Sounds VERY interesting, but I see only the source is available, no
> compiled binaries. I am a little confused as to just what kernel version of
> Linux loads, and how big the binaries are supposed to be. I suppose one
> could choose just how robust the .iso image is, but my goal would be get it
> as small as possible, so as to load very quickly.
>
> I'm also wondering to what interesting tasks this could be put. I've often
> thought of using video card RAM as a RAMDRIVE, which Linux does allow, as I
> understand it. That might be a great idea, swap in and out of Linux for a 2
> or 4 GB ramdrive, courtesy of your modern video card with fast VRAM. Are
> there any other ideas for Linux-specific applications which have not been
> ported to DOS, and / or will run better in Linux commandline? I'm thinking
> modern soundcard support is better in Linux, but this is probably well
> beyond the scope of what this program is supposed to do. How about the
> latest Mplayer and / or FFmpeg Linux ports?
>
> Has anyone built this, and can share the binaries?
I think the intent is to have a modern version of nasm [0], to build a custom
kernel for the bzImage, a custom busybox, and a build of i386-gcc & i386-binutils. See the Makefile.

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