Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS is 25 years old

2019-07-03 Thread Jim Hall
On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 3:52 PM Maarten Vermeulen wrote: > > Congratulations on 25 years of FreeDOS! :) > > On Wed, Jul 3, 2019, 20:46 Tom Ehlert wrote: >> >> >> unfortunately it looks like there are now more milestones ahead then >> bug fixes. (...) > > > Of course, there's always that ONE

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS is 25 years old

2019-07-03 Thread Eric Auer
Hi :-) First of all: Congrats! 25 years of FreeDOS with Jim! :-) After watching that youtube, I wonder what it would have been like for him having taken that DOS job in Japan :-) > FreeCOM bugs unfixed for straight 10 years. Embarassing indeed... > automatic network card detection I

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS is 25 years old

2019-07-03 Thread Maarten Vermeulen
Congratulations on 25 years of FreeDOS! :) On Wed, Jul 3, 2019, 20:46 Tom Ehlert wrote: > > unfortunately it looks like there are now more milestones ahead then > bug fixes. (...) Of course, there's always that ONE person who tries (or succeeds without trying) to ruin the party. Congrats to

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS is 25 years old

2019-07-03 Thread Tom Ehlert
> FreeDOS has now been around for 25 years. That's a major milestone > for anything, especially an open source software project. unfortunately it looks like there are now more milestones ahead then bug fixes. milestones like FreeCOM bugs unfixed for straight 10 years. Congrats. not even talking

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS is 25 years old

2019-07-03 Thread Ralf Quint
On 7/2/2019 12:12 PM, Jim Hall wrote: On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 2:41 AM Ralf Quint > wrote: On 6/30/2019 3:33 PM, Jim Hall wrote: FreeDOS has now been around for 25 years. That's a major milestone for anything, especially an open source software

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS is 25 years old

2019-07-02 Thread Jim Hall
On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 2:41 AM Ralf Quint wrote: > On 6/30/2019 3:33 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > > FreeDOS has now been around for 25 years. That's a major milestone for > anything, especially an open source software project. > > Darn, now I really feel old. I think I have been along this more or less

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS is 25 years old

2019-07-02 Thread Aitor SantamarĂ­a
Yeah indeed! A milestone to celebrate. Glad to be part of the community, and long future for FreeDOS! On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 at 00:34, Jim Hall wrote: > FreeDOS has now been around for 25 years. That's a major milestone for > anything, especially an open source software project. > > I just wanted

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS is 25 years old

2019-07-02 Thread Ralf Quint
On 6/30/2019 3:33 PM, Jim Hall wrote: FreeDOS has now been around for 25 years. That's a major milestone for anything, especially an open source software project. Darn, now I really feel old. I think I have been along this more or less the whole time... I just wanted to say THANK YOU to

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS is 25 years old

2019-07-01 Thread Steve Nickolas
On Mon, 1 Jul 2019, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel wrote: And we thank YOU! It's pretty cool to see what passion for a platform can do, despite the majority of the modern computing world considering it dead. Great work, and may it continue growing! Btw... Nice guest appearance on the

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS is 25 years old

2019-07-01 Thread Jim Hall
Thanks! :-) Bryan is a cool guy - always love talking with him. We even had a great conversation after the show wrapped. That's kind of why the video ends suddenly, because we kept going for another five minutes talking about other stuff. :-) On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 5:26 PM Mercury Thirteen via

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS is 25 years old

2019-07-01 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel
And we thank YOU! It's pretty cool to see what passion for a platform can do, despite the majority of the modern computing world considering it dead. Great work, and may it continue growing! Btw... Nice guest appearance on the [Lunduke Show](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ib9HLHeNfI)! On

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS is 25 years old

2019-06-30 Thread David McMackins
Yes, thank YOU Jim and all the long time devs who made FreeDOS a thing we can enjoy today. I've learned a lot and had quite a bit of fun so far, and I'm looking forward to making some contributions of my own to the community. Happy Hacking, David E. McMackins II www.mcmackins.org

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS is 25 years old

2019-06-30 Thread Jayden Charbonneau
Thank YOU for being such a great opensource OS project! :-) On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 6:34 PM Jim Hall wrote: > FreeDOS has now been around for 25 years. That's a major milestone for > anything, especially an open source software project. > > I just wanted to say THANK YOU to everyone in the

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS is 25 years old

2019-06-30 Thread Jim Hall
FreeDOS has now been around for 25 years. That's a major milestone for anything, especially an open source software project. I just wanted to say THANK YOU to everyone in the FreeDOS community - past and present. Open source software is about people coming together to work on something, and