Hi Bernd, > kernel 2034, 2035 released by Bart > kernel 2035A released by Jeremy > kernel 2035B by Jeremy (2035A + "stable features backported from 2035W) > kernel 2035W by Jeremy, experimental/development line
The core problem is that 2035w is not a version. It is the label for the daily compile kernels and has been for a year or more... There is some int 21 function to grab the version STRING, but VER does not use that function. And it would not really help either, as normal mortals cannot do "cvs checkout [version defined by date in terms of day month year]" nor can they compile the kernel. So they can only eat the kernel of the day or refuse to do so and be stuck with 2035b. When they find a bug, they can only compare today with 2035b, they cannot test in-between versions. > FreeCOM 0.82, 0.82patchlevel 1, 0.82pl2, 0.82pl3 by Steffen Kaiser > flavour 1: XMS-swapping, 8086+ > flavour 2: KSSF-swapping, 8086+ > FreeCOM 0.84prerelease (CVS) by Jeremy > flavour 1: XMS-swapping, 8086+, no LH, no ALIAS > flavour 2: XMS-swapping, 80186+, full-featured > flavour 3: KSSF-swapping, 8086+, full-featured, no binary available. > What I'm afraid of is 80186+/80386+ binaries > which somehow end up being transferred to older machines > (8086). Then it might not work (kernel for example). That's why > 8086-kernel and 8086-FreeCOM are provided by default. > Only (major!) drawback to that is no LH functionality in FreeCOM. Bernd, you can count 8086 users in "parts per mio" in 2006. Please do make the 186+ XMS Swap full featured FreeCOM the default. Otherwise 999 of 1000 users will complain about the crappy FreeCOM which cannot even LH, which has "ALIAS broken", and so on. Note that you did not upload a diskette edition of the current beta anyway, to the three still existing 8086 users on the world cannot install the beta anyway. They will use ODIN or will use a bootdisk from fdos.org, possibly manually replacing the FreeCOM on it by the 8086 one if needed. Eric ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-kernel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
