[Freedos-devel] MS-DOG (was Re: [Freedos-user] FSF)

Hi again, I was thinking about this old email and thought I should clarify (in a technical sense). (comments below) On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 6:56 PM Jim Hall wrote: > > Here's the thing: I've had years of direct experience with Stallman. > > He calls DOS a "DOG operating system." The FSF and GNU

Re: [Freedos-devel] MS-DOG (was Re: [Freedos-user] FSF)

Hallo Herr Rugxulo, am Mittwoch, 1. März 2023 um 10:22 schrieben Sie: Hi again, > It's entirely possible that Richard dislikes DOS that much. I also dislike Richard. we can leave it at that. Tom ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Free FDISK interim builds

Hello, I am now reaching a state where I think that FDISK not any longer breaks the partition layouts created by itself. However, there is at least still one MAJOR flaw when dealing with partition layouts created by other partition managers: If there exists an extended partition with a start a

Re: [Freedos-devel] MS-DOG (was Re: [Freedos-user] FSF)

On 3/1/2023 6:12 AM, tom ehlert wrote: Hallo Herr Rugxulo, am Mittwoch, 1. März 2023 um 10:22 schrieben Sie: Hi again, It's entirely possible that Richard dislikes DOS that much. I also dislike Richard. we can leave it at that. That makes two of us.. He had a basically good idea decades a

Re: [Freedos-devel] Free FDISK interim builds

On 3/1/2023 8:22 AM, Bernd Boeckmann via Freedos-devel wrote: Hello, I am now reaching a state where I think that FDISK not any longer breaks the partition layouts created by itself. However, there is at least still one MAJOR flaw when dealing with partition layouts created by other partition

Re: [Freedos-devel] Free FDISK interim builds

> Am 01.03.2023 um 18:08 schrieb Ralf Quint : > >> b) If it would be ok (at least as an interim solution) to make FDISK refuse >> handling disks with such type of partition layout, because the user must >> have another partition manager to create such layouts anyway. While not >> being optima

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Interim Build T2303

Hi All, The new FreeDOS Interim Build T2303 is now available for testing. https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/test/ There were a couple minor problems when creating this months buil

Re: [Freedos-devel] MS-DOG (was Re: [Freedos-user] FSF)

Tom wrote: > > I also dislike Richard. we can leave it at that. Ralf wrote: > That makes two of us.. He had a basically good idea decades ago and then +1 ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/

Re: [Freedos-devel] Free FDISK interim builds

Hallo Herr Ralf Quint, am Mittwoch, 1. März 2023 um 18:08 schrieben Sie: > On 3/1/2023 8:22 AM, Bernd Boeckmann via Freedos-devel wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am now reaching a state where I think that FDISK not any longer breaks the >> partition layouts created by itself. >> >> However, there is at

Re: [Freedos-devel] MS-DOG (was Re: [Freedos-user] FSF)

On Wed, 1 Mar 2023, Ralf Quint wrote: On 3/1/2023 6:12 AM, tom ehlert wrote: Hallo Herr Rugxulo, am Mittwoch, 1. März 2023 um 10:22 schrieben Sie: Hi again, It's entirely possible that Richard dislikes DOS that much. I also dislike Richard. we can leave it at that. That makes two of us.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Free FDISK interim builds

On 3/1/2023 9:13 AM, tom ehlert wrote: The reason why partition boundaries are aligned on cylinder boundaries is that a lot of other OSes also rely on that. any example of this? I don't any (not completely braindead) operating system would rely on that; it's just the way that FDISK and friends

Re: [Freedos-devel] Free FDISK interim builds

>>> The reason why partition boundaries are aligned on cylinder boundaries >>> is that a lot of other OSes also rely on that. >> any example of this? I don't any (not completely braindead) operating >> system would rely on that; it's just the way that FDISK and friends >> place partitions on the d