As Eric Auer released a "bugzilla SYS 3.3" which starts confusing as 
unofficial 3.x versions already exist,
is it possible to get everything unified in the Subversion concurrent 
versioning system?

To my knowledge we got:
* Kernel 2036 (stable, all compilers)
* Kernel 2037 (unstable/experimental, adds NLS support for example, 
making NLSFUNC/COUNTRY functional)
* Kernel 2038 (unstable/experimental, adds hotbooting with JEMMEX for 
example)
* Kernel that requires 386+
* Kernel without FAT32 support

* SYS 3.2 (official FreeDOS)
* SYS 3.3 (Bugzilla, Eric Auer, cant be compiled by Openwatcom)
* SYS 3.x (Jeremy Davis and/or Blair Campbell, used for DRDOS, supports 
opensource bootsectors for various DOS flavours except
   MSDOS7.10/FAT32. This SYS is actually on the FREEDOS\SETUP\BIN 
section of FreeDOS 1.0 but not in packages or installed FreeDOS.
   I think this SYS got turned into an abandoned project though it has 
much potential in combination with Metakern to make 'simple' dualboots

* Freecom 0.82patchlevel 2 by Steffen Kaiser
* Freecom 0.83patchlevel 3 by Steffen kaiser (some regression bugs, some 
improvements)
* Freecom 0.84 by Blair Campbell and possibly Jeremy Davis (Freedos 1.0)
* Freecom binaries only supporting partial amount of the command set 
and/or features, like ALIAS
* Freecom binaries only supporting disk-swapping by using a helper 
program (KSSF)
* Freecom binaries only supporting XMS-swapping (or eating 75KB of low 
memory)

It would be nice to be able to have flavours located on a single 
location, not all over the place. Try finding Jeremy's port of Smart 
Boot Manager for Syslinux for example :). SVN would do fine, and maybe 
kernel 2038 can be made standard sometime.

As for the FreeDOS 1.0 distro improvements, some people are already 
working on updated packages. Others might have been busy with making 
better scripts, etc.
And ofcourse the infamous floppy distributions, which on one side should 
be 'copy *.* c:\freedos' and on the other side having the same full 
functionality as the CD, including package selection. It's tough :)

Bernd


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