I'd love to give this a try as a replacement for FreeDOS. I've used FreeDOS for a couple of silly embedded projects (the clock in my living room, for one), and the biggest limiting factors are:
1) Network support - it's glitchy at best; ODI drivers + Watcom TCP never seem to work for very long. If I toss out coreutils, that gives me close to 500k for a network stack.
2) Boot time. I suspect this will be _worse_ on Linux than on FreeDOS, but bootstrapping bare essentials like APM and an ANSI terminal driver do add overhead that's "just there" on Linux, so they may be neck-and-neck for all I know.
1) Network support - it's glitchy at best; ODI drivers + Watcom TCP never seem to work for very long. If I toss out coreutils, that gives me close to 500k for a network stack.
2) Boot time. I suspect this will be _worse_ on Linux than on FreeDOS, but bootstrapping bare essentials like APM and an ANSI terminal driver do add overhead that's "just there" on Linux, so they may be neck-and-neck for all I know.