Re: [Freedos-kernel] please change the default freecom and increase the kernel version

2006-01-26 Thread Bernd Blaauw
David O'Shea schreef: It says The UNSTABLE (aka development) branch is what I refer to as the development kernel (kernels with w suffix). It looks like those kernels actually have .dev or .dbgdev in them, right? There doesn't seem to be a discussion of the naming convention for FreeCOM.

Re: [Freedos-kernel] please change the default freecom and increase the kernel version

2006-01-25 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Bart Oldeman schreef: To be fair I found Eric's email rather demanding. In general if you want things to happen in the NEAR future you either have to do it yourself or pay big bucks, not just pizza money. Certainly when the kernel doesn't have a real maintainer (just an interim one who does

[Freedos-kernel] please change the default freecom and increase the kernel version

2006-01-25 Thread David O'Shea
Howdy, Hi, http://fdos.org/kernel/ makes people use 8086 FreeCOM if I understand the text right. This means they will likely have no XMS swap and no LOADHIGH. In short, they will think FreeCOM is really a BAD command.com I find the site a bit confusing. It says The UNSTABLE (aka

Re: [Freedos-kernel] please change the default freecom and increase the kernel version

2006-01-23 Thread Alain
Eric Auer escreveu: Hi, http://fdos.org/kernel/ makes people use 8086 FreeCOM if I understand the text right. This means they will likely have no XMS swap and no LOADHIGH. In short, they will think FreeCOM is really a BAD command.com I agree. My other wish is using a new version number.

[Freedos-kernel] please change the default freecom and increase the kernel version

2006-01-22 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, http://fdos.org/kernel/ makes people use 8086 FreeCOM if I understand the text right. This means they will likely have no XMS swap and no LOADHIGH. In short, they will think FreeCOM is really a BAD command.com Please make the XMS SWAP 186+ FreeCOM the one which is linked at the Stable Kernel