[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef:
BTW: when we can expect 1.0?
End of next year. For what still needs to be done, please see
http://wiki.fdos.org/Main/Todo_1_0
Delaying 1.0 beyond next year would make no sense, the amount of DOS
users is limited.
Already FreeDOS is very stable and usable, yet still has a few bugs.
For a time schedule: end of November will have FreeDOS Beta9 Service
Release #2,
and 1.0 Preview series should start in Januari 2006.
I'm still working on making the installation process smoother, and Blair
Campbell is taking care of adding more and more packages,
so we would have a full distribution instead of only the core programs.
There are more people silently involved in making FreeDOS
better all the time.
If we only would have to consider the same goals as Microsoft's DOS
5.00, then we're at 99% currently. It's the added features,
like uninstallation, dualboot scenarios with other operating systems,
being able to run Windows3.xx and installing Windows from
FreeDOS that are taking some effort. Other concerns are 8086
compatibility and FAT32 support, as well as being able to compile
FreeDOS components with opensource (or at least freely available) compilers.
Hopefully we will have some volunteers next year that can take the bugs
out of components if maintainers are unavailable somehow.
Bernd
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