An article by Ed Hurst on OFB.biz about his recent attempt to install
eComStation. This is just the beginning of an on-going project to evaluate
eCS.
"It's not enough you have to pay retail for eCS at prices comparable
to Windows, but you have to pay a pretty penny for your hardware. For a
lot of drivers not already included, the means to installing is fairly
involved, calling for editing config files with a high degree of
specialized expertise. I thought selecting the right options for DOSEmu
on Linux was just a little tough, but I'm still months from
understanding the tweaking required for eCS configuration files. And it
seemed to me there was an awful lot of it, all fairly demanding.
Serenity supplied me with one copy each of the stable release (1.2R) and
the current release candidate (2.0 RC4). So far I've gotten one or the
other to run on the half-dozen machines I've tried, but there was always
something which made the results unusable. The fixing was typically
quite involved, and it always came down to cheaper hardware being poorly
supported."
The full article can be found here: http://www.ofb.biz/safari/article/459.html