The Ikon Desktop Environment is a graphical user interface

Graphical user interface

In computing, a graphical user interface is a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices with images rather than text commands. GUIs can be used in computers, hand-held devices such as MP3 players, portable media players or gaming devices, household appliances and...

 for the open-source operating system FreeDOS

FreeDOS

FreeDOS is an operating system for IBM PC compatible computers. FreeDOS is made up of many different, separate programs that act as "packages" to the overall FreeDOS Project...

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Features

Ikon is an advancement on previous GUI's for FreeDOS such as FreeGEM

FreeGEM

FreeGEM is a windowing system based on Digital Research's GEM which was first released in 1985. GEM stands for "Graphical Environment Manager"...

 because it implements the 32-bit

32-bit

The range of integer values that can be stored in 32 bits is 0 through 4,294,967,295. Hence, a processor with 32-bit memory addresses can directly access 4 GB of byte-addressable memory....

 computer architecture. An implementation of this kind has also been accomplished by the SEAL

SEAL GUI

SEAL is a 32-bit graphical user interface for DOS created by Michal Stencl. SEAL requires at least an Intel 80486, 8MB of RAM , a video card supporting 640x480 with 256 colors, 1.6MB of hard drive space, MS-DOS 3.0+ or equivalent...

 and QubeOS GUI's. The desktop environment utilizes a number of other features such as Vesa

VESA

VESA is an international standards body for computer graphics founded in 1989 by NEC Home Electronics and eight other video display adapter manufacturers.VESA's initial goal was to produce a standard for 800×600 SVGA resolution video displays...

graphics and provides programs for internet connectivity.

It is currently still in beta.