Hi Tom, Alain, > whatever 'ready' means when nobody (except you self) > tested it so far.
While there were no official sourceforge file releases, there are updated versions on the rugxulo distro page http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/ and I did mention those on our lists from time to time. His homepage contains a small diskette distro with FreeDOS BASE and mixed other free open source goodies, available as zips and as disk images, as well as mixed useful DOS downloads such as the mentioned FreeDOS kernel snapshots :-). In other words, the SVN snapshot kernel is part of the only useable diskette distro of FreeDOS after 0.9sr2, the Rugxulo distro :-). PROBLEM with the Rugxulo distro is that it still does not provide a download of all the sources in one file. ADVANTAGE of the Rugxulo distro is that it provides all of FreeDOS BASE and is so up to date that it is basically a prerelease of FreeDOS 1.1 :-). Of course the Joris 1.0 single diskette distro is also nice but that one is tuned towards running on 8086, so there is no 286/386/newer specific stuff available in it. Note that there is also a "classic FreeDOS 1.0" diskette distro, but this contributed distro is 88 diskettes, but you can install BASE using the first 4 diskettes - which are 1680 kilobytes each. The 2-3 diskettes of the Rugxulo distro are simply 1440 kilobytes each... Actually I would appreciate it if somebody made a single 2880 kilobyte image from it, then people could use it for bootable CD/DVD :-). Note that the Rugxulo distro is just a FreeDOS which WORKS, not a FreeDOS which has to be INSTALLED on a harddisk. You can install the Rugxulo distro with SYS and some XCOPY ;-). www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/floppy/ http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/ (Rugxulo 8086 and 386+, 2-3 disk distro) http://www.xs4all.nl/~rjoris/freedos.html (Joris 8086, 1 disk distro) > in the good old times, we had a couple of prereleases, In the good old times - yes. Today it is even very hard to discuss any patch at all. Typically somebody writes me off-list about a bug, I write a patch, unless that patch is totally obvious I then describe it on freedos- kernel and ask for comments... ...and then nobody replies for a week so I assume that everybody is happy with the patch and I move on. Still suggestions for a more elaborate way of releasing the FreeDOS 2038 kernel are okay. With one exception: I do not want to wait until N people have commented/tested/ whatever, because that might take forever. Waiting time is only acceptable if defined in terms of time, where time is relatively SHORT. Otherwise we end up having a release cycle of more than 2 years per version :-(. > and also of post release fixes. the times they are a-changing Yes. Now nobody even knows how to reach Jeremy. Unless you want to give his snailmail address a try, maybe... > the latest published kernel on ibiblio, freedos 1.0, etc. > www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/kernel/2036/ > is from august 2006. I believe that this is because Jim only posts official releases on ibiblio, and the first official release after 1.0 will be 2038? At least there were no requests from anybody to publish any sort of prerelease of kernel 2038, and I certainly did tell about the wish to make an official kernel 2038 file release, probably on this list, and in quite clear words. Would not be surprised if I started doing so over a year ago... Anyway. No use to keep complaining about the past. The point is that quite a few patches have accumulated, none of which are very revolutionary. They are rather evolutionary, gradually bringing the kernel into better shape over the last two years. The updated kernel exists in actual distros, outside compile- your-own-svn-snapshot places for the geekish :-). So there is some actual experience with this kernel... Nobody complained, but some told the kernel fixes problems for them. Fair enough. I think the current kernel certainly is a good thing to release. If there are post release fixes, fine. But if you had wanted several pre releases, you should have asked one year ago. Eric PS, reply to Alain "That is a good idea, Eric, why not redase a 2038rc1" Answer: http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/christian.zip actually IS a release candidate for 2038. *Please test it everybody.* I planned to change only the version string from "Christian" to "2038" to make 2038. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Freedos-kernel mailing list Freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
