On Sun, 6 Apr 2025 at 01:44, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > FreeDOS 1.4 is live!
Great! Congrats! [...] > Please reply here to > let me know what else I should emphasize for FreeDOS 1.4. I am writing a news story on it. It's hard to link to the announcement on https://www.freedos.org/ Is there a page for "What's new?" I could link to? Better still a story? At present I am using: https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/news/2025/04/freedos-14-is-here/ Not ideal -- wholly different base URL. I am looking at the release notes: https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.4/readme.txt ... But they aren't really release notes. That's just a readme file detailing the media. If I may say so... "FreeDOS Floppy-Only Edition (FD14-x86)" That's a bad name. x86 implies that the other versions are _not_ x86 or that they run on other CPUs. In fact VirtualBox defaulted to 32MB of RAM when it saw "dos" in the VM name and the live CD failed to boot saying "not enough RAM"! So, a realistic RAM spec is needed. 64MB? 128? 256? So live FreeDOS needs an amount of RAM only an x86 machine can provide. It would be better called x86 because these days "x86" means "x86-32" to most people. Millennials think all PCs are x86-64 and they forget the "86" bit and call it "x64". I would suggest "FD14-86" not x86. 8086 is more like it. I could really use a list of changes and what's new. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 227612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
