On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Ladislav Lacina wrote:
> It seems that FreeDOS project is in another crisis now. There is nobody who
> develops kernel (compatibility with MS-DOS is still not perfect), we still
> lack some disk utilities for FAT32 and so on.
> There is too small number of active FreeDOS developers. But there is also
> group around another DOS clone - (E)DR-DOS. They are concentrated around
> http://www.drdosprojects.de/forum/drp_forum/ and http://www.drdos.org
> Why nobody from FreeDOS team goes there? I know that most people from EDR-DOS
> group are watching news about FreeDOS but why it doesn't work in opposite way?
> For example: recently made a small "revolution" fact that console player
> MPlayer can be runned from DOS (using HX-DOS extender). So we now have two
> usable video players. Or you think it isn't important? Or at least
> interresting?
> It is a sad fact that due rough contributions on mailling lists some
> developers left FreeDOS. Why don't to try "hire" some new fresh people on
> EDR-DOS?
> BTW: EDR-DOS is dependent to FreeDOS because EDR-DOS is only kernel, not
> other DOS utilities.
But E-DRDOS kernel license is incompatiple with FreeDOS.
-uso.
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