As noted somewhere on this list, FreeDOS 1.1 is supposed to come out now 2011 (same had been previously promised for 2010, 2009, 2008 and 2007 too) after kernel 2040 comes out.
Some personal suggestions of mine what should come in: Base: KERNEL 2040 (hopefully fixed, if not, the fallback level is 2038, not broken 2039) FREECOM (updated (in progress ?) or not (from 2003)) SYS (update in progress ?) Memory: MEM (???) HIMEMX 3.32 or 3.33 (the "early-80386-BUG" is not "officially" fixed) JEMM 5.74 Drivers: CTMOUSE Bret's USBDOS (free & OS, not GPL) Editors: FreeDOS EDIT (the BUG is still in ...) INFOPAD (very good, from 3.95 or later, possibly best editor for 80386 and above, bugs are fixed, patch-in full DOS32A) Compilers: FASM 1.69.31 or later (free & OS, not GPL) CC386 3.95 or later FREEBASIC 0.22 (to come out soon ???) FBHELP:YES non-DOS stuff:NO NASM (both latest 2.xx and 0.98.39 ??? - BTW, XXX-64 support is useless for DOS) JAWASM (free & OS, not GPL) WATTCOM (anyone dares to reduce the bloat before adding ???) DOS Extenders: DOS32A D3X http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386/d3x.zip WDOSX http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386/wdosx.zi7 HX (2.14 2008-03 ??? 2.16 2009-11 ??? "secret" update from 2010 ??? there are both improvements and regressions ...) Graphics: DUGL Viewer (free, not fully OS) ??? no PNG support QPV (free, not OS) very good, also PNG VGAP386 ??? (buggy) Documents: ANTIWORLD (0.37 from 2005 or newer, update maybe planned) RayeR's MUPDF DGJPP port XPDF Packers: UNTGZKIR http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386/untgzkir.zip (very good, OS & PD !!!) UZ (from CC386) 7-ZIP Win32 binary 4.65 or 9.20 INFOZIP ??? UNRAR ??? (bad license) Audio&Video: MPXPLAY 1.57 or 1.58 final MPLAYER latest Mik's binary (if anyone has the source, I'm not among them) Theora broken, WebM NO, sound NO MPLAYER latest Khusraw's binary (if anyone has the source, I'm not among them) Theora broken, WebM YES, sound YES MPLAYER some Sherpya's binary Theora fixed (maybe), WebM YES, sound NO (needs testing) DUGL PLAYER 0.50 or later (free, not fully OS) no sound MEDIAINFO (needs HX, picky about version, anyone dares to compile a DGJPP or WATTCOM port ???) Debuggers: JDEBUG 1.23 or newer INSIGHT 1.24 or newer UI21DEB (2009-05) http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386/ui21deb.zip http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386/ui21deb.txt (OS & PD !!!) Internet: ARACHNE 1.95 (remove garbage before adding ???) HTTPS:NO DOSLYNX 0.41 (free, not OS) HTTPS: YES MBTCP + TOOLS WGET Misc: FBMD5 http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386/fbmd5.zip http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386/md5.png Hardware: RayeR's VESATEST (free, not OS) ??? RayeR's CPUID (free, not OS) ??? Eric's CPUIDLEVEL PCI (the PCI tool, free and OS) Games: NK's STAR TETRIS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
