Re: [Freedos-user] Wrote an article about upcoming FreeDOS 1.0...

2006-07-27 Thread Eric Auer

 maybe not the best article, but please rate it as good, so that it
 will be on the front site ;-))   (also if you don't speak German)

 http://www.readers-edition.de/neu

 I want to write a new article, when FreeDOS 1.0 is out ;-)

Hi Florian, the URL of your article is:

http://www.readers-edition.de/2006/07/27/noch-2-tage-bis-zur-veroeffentlichung-von-freedos-10

Some criticism:

 Seitdem besitzt FreeDOS einen eigenen Kernel, der zu 100%
   in der Programmiersprache C geschrieben ist.

No, only MOST of our kernel is written in C, not all of it.

 ...nicht nur FAT12/16, sondern auch FAT32 und LBA.

You should mention that this means that we support partitions
bigger than 2 GB and harddisks bigger than 8 GB, which MSDOS 6
did not support. Please remove the part about UDMA, it is an
issue which is bound to cause discussions with Jack ;-).

 um den PC in Stand-by oder Ruhezustand zu versetzen
 und Energie zu sparen.

The driver allows to halt the CPU while idle and allows
to globally throttle the CPU: The former saves energy,
like the Win9x program Waterfall, and the latter can also
slow down the computer which can be useful for running
old software :-).

  Seit einigen Monaten ist es sogar moeglich, mittels eines externen
  Programms (HX DOS Extender) Windows-Programme unter DOS zu verwenden.
  Ein bekanntes Beispiel ist die Windows-Version von QEMU.

Did anybody actually test whether QEMU for Win runs in HXRT in DOS?

 Das Projekt ist noch bis zur Veroeffentlichung in der Testphase...

This needs further explanation: We are an open source project which
is very careful with version numbers. In the beginning, our plan
was to call FreeDOS 1.0 as soon as it would offer all MS DOS 3.3x
features. Later, that changed to MS DOS 5.0 (better memory manage-
ment etc) and yet later we wanted to provide clones of (almost)
all the tools which are included in MS DOS 6.22 ... In the meantime,
FAT32 and other advanced features got added. So FreeDOS is far from
being a first 1.0 version - it is more like a FINAL 1.0 version
before we start adding even MORE advanced features! Many people do
not realize that and think that FreeDOS took 12 years to reach
any useful state at all.

You should point people to
http://wiki.fdos.org/Main/Todo_1_0
for further reference about our 1.0 goals.

And, of course, I would have preferred if you had asked for
comments first, before widely publishing the article...

Thanks :-)

Eric

PS: How do you know whether we will actually reach 1.0
exactly on the right day?


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Re: [Freedos-user] Wrote an article about upcoming FreeDOS 1.0...

2006-07-27 Thread Shane M. Coughlan
Eric Auer wrote:
 maybe not the best article, but please rate it as good, so that it
 will be on the front site ;-))   (also if you don't speak German)
 http://www.readers-edition.de/neu
 I want to write a new article, when FreeDOS 1.0 is out ;-)
 
 Hi Florian, the URL of your article is:
 http://www.readers-edition.de/2006/07/27/noch-2-tage-bis-zur-veroeffentlichung-von-freedos-10

I'm really curious to see how FreeDOS does once it's out as a 1.0.

Now, I have some rather exciting news: it looks like I'll be a
conference in Taipei at the end of September.  If it's possible to have
a list of the Taiwanese tech firms that use or used FreeDOS I can
perhaps visit them and get them to (a) upgrade and (b) perhaps mention
it more.

Shane

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Re: [Freedos-user] Wrote an article about upcoming FreeDOS 1.0...

2006-07-27 Thread tom ehlert

 The date of release is official - BUT I don't think it is a problem if
 the release will be some days later. ;-)

I don't think it is a problem if it's not released until

   INSTALL trashed my working computer

gets solved. And what I get from the discussion, the possibility for
this seems to exist (with even some high probability)

Tom


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Re: [Freedos-user] Wrote an article about upcoming FreeDOS 1.0...

2006-07-27 Thread Florian Xaver
Hi,

this article wasn't for the FreeDOS community. Windows and Linux users 
should read it. If only one person is looking at FreeDOS.org, this 
article will serve the purpose.

AND it also destroyed my notebook. All the bugs needs to be fixed!!

Bye
  Flo

tom ehlert wrote:
 The date of release is official - BUT I don't think it is a problem if
 the release will be some days later. ;-)
 
 I don't think it is a problem if it's not released until
 
INSTALL trashed my working computer
 
 gets solved. And what I get from the discussion, the possibility for
 this seems to exist (with even some high probability)
 
 Tom
 
 
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Re: [Freedos-user] Wrote an article about upcoming FreeDOS 1.0...

2006-07-27 Thread tomleem
Florian Xaver wrote:
 Hi,

 maybe not the best article, but please rate it as good, so that it 
 will be on the front site ;-))   (also if you don't speak German)

 http://www.readers-edition.de/neu

 I want to write a new article, when FreeDOS 1.0 is out ;-)

 Thanks,
   Flo
   
Have you thought of submitting it to http://www.osnews.com ?

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Re: [Freedos-user] Wrote an article about upcoming FreeDOS 1.0...

2006-07-27 Thread Florian Xaver
No, someone else writes to osnews I thought...?

bye
  Flo

On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 01:10:12 +0200, tomleem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Florian Xaver wrote:
 Hi,

 maybe not the best article, but please rate it as good, so that it
 will be on the front site ;-))   (also if you don't speak German)

 http://www.readers-edition.de/neu

 I want to write a new article, when FreeDOS 1.0 is out ;-)

 Thanks,
   Flo

 Have you thought of submitting it to http://www.osnews.com ?




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