On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 7:50 AM Louis Santillan via Freedos-devel < freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 12:13 PM Michael Brutman via Freedos-devel < > freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > >> [SNIP] >> You are responsible for making that source code available, not for >> shipping it by default ... >> >> Like I've said, it's fine for FreeDOS to mirror/archive/host source code >> for inactive projects. But FreeDOS often takes years to update, so for >> active projects it is actively shipping out of date source code. A >> referral to the current source with the mirror/archive as a backup makes >> more sense. >> >> Then again, it's not a big issue - the number of people using the source >> code for anything is very limited. Which is why this conversation started >> ... >> > [SNIP] > > I'm going to vocalize an opinion that will likely be unpopular because it > requires great effort.... > > While shipping source isn't required, there ought to be some concern that > there isn't something like FreeDOS From Scratch (like > https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/). RBE does a good job of putting ISOs > and floppy images together, it doesn't show you how to start from scratch > however. > Yeah one does not simply write a book like that, however, I think it could be a worthy effort and interesting. I don't think FreeDOS needs to be a from scratch distro, but I think there certainly would be space for a DOS from scratch distro :) You're just going to have to find the people who want to do it, or write it yourself. I would be interested in using it, for instance, as one of my projects I plan to install freeDOS/svarDOS on my HP Mini 210 which I have lying around... I'd like to try optimizing for as high of a CPU as possible and see how fast I could make DOS code 🤔 --Wolf -- |\_ | .\---. / ,__/ / /Wolf <wolf+...@bergenheim.net>_ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >
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