Hi Tom, > On Dec 4, 2020, at 1:08 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” > […] > insofar your attempt to discuss what should be "FreeDOS" is welcome. > it just comes a little bit late.
I don’t think I am confused. And, I am not trying to define or change what is meant when people think about FreeDOS. What is or is not FreeDOS is not the point of the Survey. The main purpose is to help us (all of us) make decisions on what software will be provided along with FreeDOS for user convenience. What gets installed when selecting BASE or FULL. Also, what packages are up and running when a user boots the LiveCD. The packages that can be provided continue to grow. Do users want a 4-DVD iso set called “FreeDOS 1.x”? I really doubt that. Do users want a Floppy diskette image with just the kernel and shell? Maybe even less likely. The question becomes, what do “you” as a user want to see on a FreeDOS release? So, that is why it is a "FreeDOS Release Media Package Survey”. This is a never ending question and the answer will most likely change over time. This is why the survey pulls package lists and information from the official repo server and settings files for the installer. As things come and go or move from here to there, the Survey will change as well. Future Releases can benefit from doing the Survey again at a later date. > all that said: have a live CD and default setup for BASE and 7ZIP (zip > and unzip don't handle newer ZIP archive methods). Do you mean just BASE + 7ZIP? No other utilities or programs? If a user wants to use rawrite (or something else), they can extract it themselves? > have a decent description what all these other "packages" might do. FDIMPLES works ok for browsing packages. It could be better and the descriptions for many packages could use improved. But for now, it’s what we have. > have more then 1 packet driver available to install those "packages". > (used to be called "Programs”) Do you mean provide networkings support to install additional packages? And provide more packet drivers for a greater range of supported hardware? There really is not any difference. Like “Application” or “Program”. However, I personally think of the zip archive files on the media as packages. They have special folder structures in them that install programs like FDNPKG use to remap directories to the file system. If you simply extract those archives, you may loose the intended directory layout for the program and it may not work without some moving of files around. For example, \PROGS\* usually gets mapped to C:\. And there are others. > > Tom > Jerome
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