Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4 coming out today!

2025-04-08 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
On Mon, Apr 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM Jim Hall wrote: > > I'm writing a bunch of articles today about FreeDOS 1.4. I'll start > with a special announcement page that I can put on www.freedos.org > that details what's new in FreeDOS 1.4. That will be up in a few > hours, but more likely sooner than that.

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4 coming out today!

2025-04-08 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
On 07/04/2025 23:59, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel wrote: Here's an announcement you can link to: https://freedos.org/download/announce.html Nice one -- thanks! -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4 coming out today!

2025-04-08 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
On 07/04/2025 18:50, Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel wrote: The primary installer used on the CD-ROMs and USB images requires a 386 or better processor. It was originally the only installer for FreeDOS 1.2. It is simply called FDI (for the FreeDOS Installer). There was no floppy disk version

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4 coming out today!

2025-04-07 Thread Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
> On Apr 7, 2025, at 12:52 PM, Liam Proven via Freedos-devel > wrote: > > On Sun, 6 Apr 2025 at 01:44, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel > wrote: >> >> FreeDOS 1.4 is live! > > Great! Congrats! > > [...] > >> Please reply here to >> let me know what else I should emphasize for FreeDOS 1.4. > >

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4 coming out today!

2025-04-07 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
I'm writing a bunch of articles today about FreeDOS 1.4. I'll start with a special announcement page that I can put on www.freedos.org that details what's new in FreeDOS 1.4. That will be up in a few hours, but more likely sooner than that. I'll share a link here when it's up. On Mon, Apr 7, 202

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4 coming out today!

2025-04-07 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
On Sun, 6 Apr 2025 at 01:44, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel wrote: > > FreeDOS 1.4 is live! Great! Congrats! [...] > Please reply here to > let me know what else I should emphasize for FreeDOS 1.4. I am writing a news story on it. It's hard to link to the announcement on https://www.freedos.org/

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4 coming out today!

2025-04-05 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
FreeDOS 1.4 is live! I've copied the FreeDOS 1.4 "GM" release to the official FreeDOS 1.4 distribution location: https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.4/ I've also updated the website so it links to FreeDOS 1.4, and updated the "about FreeDOS 1.4" text on the do

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4 coming out today!

2025-04-05 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
[..] > > I'll do this later today. I'm responding to other work items at the > > moment, but I can do it later this afternoon or early evening. > > > > Yay! :-) > > +1 > > Unless you want me to move it. > Then, you will just need to announce it. :-) I figure if I move it, I can coordinate that wit

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4 coming out today!

2025-04-05 Thread Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
> On Apr 5, 2025, at 12:34 PM, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel > wrote: > > Sounds like this [from the "FreeDOS 1.4-GM Re-issue" email on > freedos-devel] was the only critical issue in the FreeDOS 1.4 "GM" .. > and it's been resolved. So I plan to "promote" the FreeDOS 1.4 "GM" > that's currently

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4 coming out today!

2025-04-05 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
Sounds like this [from the "FreeDOS 1.4-GM Re-issue" email on freedos-devel] was the only critical issue in the FreeDOS 1.4 "GM" .. and it's been resolved. So I plan to "promote" the FreeDOS 1.4 "GM" that's currently in the "test" directory to become the official "FreeDOS 1.4". I'll do this later