On 12/31/2014 10:40 AM, Michael Brutman wrote:
I am a little skeptical about the prospects for success on this project.
The FreeDOS roadmap (
http://www.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/FreeDOS_Road_Map ) is out of
date and short on details. I would like to see a broad discussion on
the roadmap, get consensus and have it updated.
Anything that uses the name "FreeDOS" should be reserved for the
classic 16 bit operating system. A new project that uses a
fundamentally different kernel should not just have a different
version number; it's a different OS. I would expect them to call it
"FreeDOS-32 v1.0" or something like that, not FreeDOS v2.0. You
should do this to preserve your trademark protections too.
Trying to find somebody on freelancer.com <http://freelancer.com> to
do work on FreeDOS-32 is going to fail. It's just not going to
happen. The crowd-sourcing programming sites attract people who are
very optimized to do a specific piece of work, such as making a new
web site using a particular framework. Operating system skills and
DOS skills are not going to be available, and nobody is going to want
to trudge up the learning curve for a very limited duration gig.
FreeDOS contributors are hobbyists - they do it because they are
interested. There is no financial incentive to work on it and the
knowledge is esoteric and not in demand. It's not a good candidate
for outsourcing.
The Kickstarter project may prove me wrong. I am interested to see if
it does. But at a minimum please consider throwing that project back
in its own namespace and not polluting "FreeDOS".
Mike
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org
<mailto:jh...@freedos.org>> wrote:
Chelson Aitcheson has just started an independent Kickstarter
project to fund development for FreeDOS-32, in support of a
FreeDOS 2.0 distribution. I will also post a note about this on
the FreeDOS website, but I wanted to share a link here for those
who wanted to contribute.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1597889412/freedos-20-32-bit
The Kickstarter aims to raise $2,500 by Thursday, January 29 2015.
Chelson's goal is to hire public developers through freelancer.com
<http://freelancer.com> to improve FreeDOS-32. If FreeDOS-32 can
be significantly improved, Chelson hopes it will become part of
mainline FreeDOS.
I'll add that I haven't used FreeDOS-32 but if it supports classic
DOS programs on modern systems while adding new and useful
features, I would support that kernel update in FreeDOS 2.0.
+1
Anything "32 bit", unless it would refer to a DOSExtender, for which
there are now at least a couple Open Source one, simply is not DOS
anymore. And certainly nothing that would be able to run "classic DOS
programs".
A better spend time (and money?) would be to convince someone at the
SeaBIOS project to help providing an (U)EFI boot stub, upon which a
"classic" 16bit FreeDOS then could boot just "like in the old days" on
the newest systems...
Ralf
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