FreeDOS has good, not perfect kernel and a suite of important tools. It`s better then I thought and it can be almost a full ms-dos replacement.
FreeDOS 1.1 was announced long ago. Now the development seams a bit dozed. (I dind`t check live source but from release cycles.) Like already mentioned the packages are incomplete and mostly outdated. So why not handle it like FreeDOS = the kernel + important tools like gnu/linux is the kernel + important tools. All other stuff (packages and such) seam to overload this project. Imho this should be evacuated to a distro. Better an alive kernel where you can put together yourself the things you need then an unmaintainable project. Hope you don`t see it as offense. Just some thoughts. -mr Eric Auer schrieb: > Hi :-) > >> DOS has not package manager like most Linux Distros. You can NOT use >> your Linux package manager to download software for DOS. > > Freedos does have a package manager, but installing a package > in freedos is almost the same as unzipping the zip with the > package in the fdos directory :-). Some tools which can use > freedos packages include install, textinst, fdpkg and fdupdate. > > The difference between unzipping and using a package manager > is that the latter can also check for dependencies and can run > batch files (which are in the zips) for some things, such as > the "do before installing", "do before updating" or "do when > uninstalling" batch of things to be done :-). > > As said in my previous mail, everybody is welcome to make > zips in fdupdate compatible format when there are updates > listed on freedos.org but not yet available on fdupdate. > We need a full collection of zips for at least the "base" > category to be able to make a FreeDOS 1.1 CDROM ISO, so > you all can help with that :-). > >> already updated packages: http://mateusz.viste.free.fr/fdupdate/ >> list of versions: http://www.freedos.org/freedos/software/ >> some updated packages: http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/ >> other version/url list: http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/fdpkgnew.txt > > Eric > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
