Which one is easier to network? well wat version of Dos are you refrering to besides 6.22?
Free DOS...


I really couldn't tell you which one is easier to network; it heavily depends on the network CARD being used.

If the network card doesn't have DOS based drivers available, neither FreeDOS or DOS 6.22 will be ABLE to use it.What are some good network cards that you used successfully?
The only one I could get to work is a Microdyne NE100 and guess what, cant find one anywhere.
What to do What to do what too do???well, recently, I purchased a D-Link DFE530-TX (wow, that is so sad that I remember the model #...) and I recall the CD included drivers for DOS and windows 3.1.Only advantage I can see to FreeDOS over MSDOS is that FreeDOS is FREE, while you have to worry about licensing ( authentic copies of the operating system ) for MSDOS.

I have used FreeDOS before and found some issues however with Intel Pro 10 ISA drivers on a Pentium 75 system, yet I had no problems with my Windows 95 box on a Pentium MMX 133 running DOS 7, ...this was when playing with FreeDOS back in 2002 in college and maybe FreeDOS has had a few updates since to better support drivers written for MSDOS execution. If I remember right, the issues I had was that it was failing to mount the network adapter drivers under FreeDOS, but worked perfectly fine in MSDOS.

You can always just give it a try and see if it NETWORKS and if so you are good to go. But just like BC_Programmer stated it all depends on the network card used and how the driver interacts with the DOS kernel of FreeDOS instead of command.com of MSDOS.

Some other issues with FreeDOS were ABNORMAL program execution of some DOS games that worked fine in MSDOS...some would BLACK screen, others would start to play and then act up, and one came up with a memory stack overflow issue.