I actually been meaning to ask what is RSS? I think it is a news feed thing.
i dont know how to set it up on my pc. it would be quite useful to be notified on a new freedos software versions On Sat, 2025-04-26 at 05:08 -0400, Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel wrote: > Hi All, > > Does anybody use RSS anymore? > > As far as I know, all the major web browsers (at least the ones I use > regularly), > dropped support for RSS many years ago. > > The main reason I ask is in regards to the upcoming FDRepo v3. > > The current FDRepo v2 has an RSS feed that is lists new package > updates. > > However, I never received any feedback in regards to that feature. > > This leads me to think precisely zero people ever used it. > > I think since RSS has been relegated to obscurity and the lack of > apparent > users to the update feeds in the repositories, the feature will not > be included > in FDRepo v3. At least not initially. > > Then later on, if there is sufficient complaining about not providing > the update > RSS feed, I find the time and feel like it eventually add support for > it into v3 of > FDRepo. > > After all, it does not take long to get complaints when a feature > someone > uses disappears. For example, when preparing the download > repositories > for FreeDOS1.4. I preformed a clean-up and deleted a a bunch of > stuff. > One thing I deleted was the automatically generated ISOs of all the > packages > in the repositories. By design, FDRepo v2 would keep that ISO up to > date. > However, if it did not exist, it would start maintaining one unless > specifically told > to do so. It took about 2 days before I started hearing “where is my > ISO?" > > It is not difficult to create the feed. I just don’t see a point in > doing that extra > work for something nobody uses. > > Oh BTW, Stage 2 is moving along great. If all continues to go well, > v3 will > hopefully be ready for use around the end of this month. > > :-) > > Jerome > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel -- founder of yellow rose group 💛️ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
