Jim Hall

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Minnesota

Jim Hall is an open source software advocate and developer, best known for usability testing in GNOME and as the founder + project coordinator of FreeDOS. At work, Jim is CEO of Hallmentum, an IT executive consulting company that provides hands-on IT Leadership training, workshops, and coaching.

Open Sourcerer People's Choice Award People's Choice Award 2018 Author Linux Contributor Club

Authored Content

Copy files between Linux and FreeDOS

Here's how I transfer files between my FreeDOS virtual machine and my Linux desktop system.

Program on FreeDOS with Bywater BASIC

Install Bywater BASIC on your FreeDOS system and start experimenting with BASIC programming.

Edit text like Emacs in FreeDOS

If you're already familiar with GNU Emacs, you should feel right at home in Freemacs.

Why I love programming on FreeDOS with GW-BASIC

BASIC was my entry into computer programming. I haven't written BASIC code in years, but I'll always have a fondness for BASIC and GW-BASIC.

Use this nostalgic text editor on FreeDOS

Edlin is a joy to use when I want to edit text the "old school" way.

Why FreeDOS has 16 colors

Why does text only come in this limited palette, and why does FreeDOS use those colors and shades, instead of some other colors? The answer, like many things in technology, is…

Authored Comments

Jim Hall

16 Apr 2021

Play a fun math game with Linux commands

I'll add that I adapted the Numbers game for my article. The show does the Numbers game with two sets of small numbers 1-10, and one set of large numbers: 25, 50, 75, and 100. But 'seq 25 25 100' doesn't show off the 'seq' command very well. :-) To do the Numbers game more like the show, do this:

seq 25 25 100 | shuf | head -2
(seq 1 10 ; seq 1 10) | shuf | head -4
echo 'and the target is:'
echo $(( RANDOM % 800 + 200 ))

Jim Hall

2 Mar 2021

Set your path in FreeDOS

Kevin, I love that you're writing these articles. Keep it up!