Hi Johnson, > IMO, a smaller, solid and flexable kernel is highest priority.
Our kernel is only ca 40 kilobytes on disk, which is quite small. > Kernel grows bigger each release, but the compatibility with MS-DOS > still not finished, the syntax in CONFIG SYS still have a big diff Agreed, the config sys syntax differs considerably. Compatibility issues seem to be limited to Windows 32 bit mode mostly, or did I miss other popular apps? :-) > Fastest way to change even need no coding: to clear up the naming > scheme and version of the FreeDOS, drop the confusing "2036test" or > "082pl3" and back to simpler one. We could name the FreeCOM and kernel versions according to their SVN revisions. Note that stable is at 2038 release candidates, not at 2036 test. Unstable/testing branch is at 2037 and has not been stabilized / audited / moved towards 2039 for a while (the numbering scheme now is Linux style: Even for stable, odd for devel/testing/unstable editions :-)). > After the new scheme deployed, that will have a certain impact to the > boring scene, and let the DOS developers that FreeDOS still active. Well if you REALLY want the scene to wake up, then I think it is VERY important to have a new release of the whole distro. In other words, we need a FreeDOS 1.1 ISO... Because people already DID a lot of coding after 1.0, but users simply do not NOTICE because they download the 1.0 ISO instead of dozens of indivitual updated DOS apps. To get 1.1 online, we need HELPERS who take the already existing "list of updated packages and their URLs" and ZIP each package according to our standard zip structure. Then we can throw the updated zips over the old ISO, fix a few small bugs in the installer itself, and voila, we have FreeDOS 1.1 :-). To get started, a BASE edition will be enough... Let me know if you want to help :-). > Something like this will be even better: > http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/status.php?show_status=1&begaming_website_session=afded9279c6b3e3b5b5b863917bc122d This is a list of "percentage done per category" with categories such as "graphics system". Remember that we already have similar: wiki.fdos.org/Main/Todo_1_0 wiki.fdos.org/Main/Post_1_0_Todo freedos.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/freedos/kernel/trunk/docs/intfns.txt?view=markup Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
