Freedos is open source. Everyone has the privilege of creating as many forks as desired.
It ain't a big deal. Al On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 1:09 PM tom ehlert <t...@drivesnapshot.de> wrote: > > Are you happy with what software is included with FreeDOS? > > you are mixing up "FreeDOS" with "FreeDOS setup 1.x" > > there was a lot of FreeDOS going on before this (IMO insane) > FreeDOS 1.0 release. > > xyzDOS used to be mostly equivalent to be our "BASE" with few > additions. > > at some point, someone decided to declare "FreeDOS" to be equivalent > to "every software that runs on FreeDOS and has GPL licensing". > without even asking. > > at first sight plausible. Unfortunately that means to throw 25 editors, 20 > assemblers, and the decision to use DOSLFN or LFNDOS at the users. > hint: one of both is more or less supported and bugfree, the other > not. guess which one :-< > > luckily for "FreeDOS", developement has stalled. > otherwise "FreeDOS" would be PetaBytes to download. > > insofar your attempt to discuss what should be "FreeDOS" is welcome. > it just comes a little bit late. > > all that said: have a live CD and default setup for BASE and 7ZIP (zip > and unzip don't handle newer ZIP archive methods). > > have a decent description what all these other "packages" might do. > > have more then 1 packet driver available to install those "packages". > (used to be called "Programs") > > Tom > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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