At 09:00 PM 8/18/2006 -0400, Gregory Pietsch wrote: >Alain M. wrote: > > > > May I offer a suggestion: we can have > > FreeDOS 1.0 alfa > > FreeDOS 1.0 beta 1 > > FreeDOS 1.0 beta 2 > > > > That would keep the schedule *and* allow time to test... > > > > >Boy, it seems like 1.0 is a perfection that no one can achieve around here. > >We have 1.0pre-1, 1.0pre-2, etc. It seems like it's more like 0.9, 0.99, >0.999, 0.9999, etc., getting closer to 1 without actually achieving it.
Yeah, but if you release what is perceived by more than a few percentage of users as a failed install or operation, FreeDOS could require significant damage control. And give more credibility to a few vultures who will over-hype FD problems for their own purposes, though that's probably a given at this point regardless of what's done. The negatives may be muted with a bit more time to test and to allow the 1.0-announce influx of bug reports to clear. But I don't like the idea of a hyperbolic approach to 1.0 either. There must be a middle path, and I think it can be done without going through the full-blown transitional alpha-1, beta-1, beta-2, RC-1, RC-2, etc. business. End of the month must look awful tempting to get official 1.0 release declared a done deal and in distribution. I'm just saying maybe that's not such a great idea depending on what transpires over the next couple of weeks, though I'm not personally averse to the idea if next candidate release goes well on all fronts. An official 1.0 full release before Aug 31st sounds ideal -- I'm not saying it shouldn't happen, just that it shouldn't be required to happen. For my part, I'm going to try and get a HIMEM with the buggy BIOS workaround per Tom's feedback, and minor miscellany on HIMEM and EMM836, out by Sunday. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
