[Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 distribution...

2009-11-01 Thread Michael Robinson
The newest kernel 2039 seems to fix a lot of problems. Is there ongoing kernel development? What has to be updated still before Freedos 1.1 comes out? I occasionally see stuff get added to http://www.freedos.org, but the 1.1 release seems to be delayed. I see no reason why there couldn't be a

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 distribution...

2009-11-01 Thread Mateusz Viste
On Sunday 01 November 2009 10:38 (CET), Michael Robinson wrote: I see no reason why there couldn't be a 1.1 release followed by a 1.2 release up to a 1.9 release. There is one very good reason: we don't have up-to-date packages... To release a v1.1, we'd need to have a complete liste of all

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 distribution...

2009-11-01 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Mateusz, There is one very good reason: we don't have up-to-date packages... To release a v1.1, we'd need to have a complete liste of all latest FreeDOS packages. See www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/fdupdate/ Many packages are outdated, and some are simply missing.

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 distribution...

2009-11-01 Thread japhethx gmail
I see no reason why there couldn't be a 1.1 release followed by a 1.2 release up to a 1.9 release. There is one very good reason: we don't have up-to-date packages... To release a v1.1, we'd need to have a complete liste of all latest FreeDOS packages. See

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 distribution...

2009-11-01 Thread Pat Villani
Actually, I am less concerned about not having updated packages for the distribution than I am about a lack of volunteers to put it together. As Japheth has suggested, there are simpler ways to create a new release, but even getting there requires work, which requires volunteers. At the moment,

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 distribution...

2009-11-01 Thread Mateusz Viste
On Sunday 01 November 2009 11:52 (CET), Eric Auer wrote: Can you make a list of which packages you still need? Well, I honestly don't really know. Basically, we need at least all packages belonging to the BASE group, minus these which are already on fdupdate (obviously, these require to be

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 distribution...

2009-11-01 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 4:38 AM, Michael Robinson plu...@robinson-west.com wrote: The newest kernel 2039 seems to fix a lot of problems.  Is there ongoing kernel development? ... Yes, there is ongoing kernel development; but with a low frequeny of updates. Jeremy

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 distribution...

2009-11-01 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 1-11-2009 10:38, Michael Robinson schreef: The newest kernel 2039 seems to fix a lot of problems. Is there ongoing kernel development? What has to be updated still before Freedos 1.1 comes out? I occasionally see stuff get added to http://www.freedos.org, but the 1.1 release seems to be

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 distribution...

2009-11-01 Thread Mateusz Viste
On Sunday 01 November 2009 11:52 (CET), Eric Auer wrote: Can you make a list of which packages you still need? Okay, I took a dozen of minutes to get such list. Here it is: :-) These BASE packages are *missing* from the fdupdate repository: ASSIGN 1.4 1997-01-27 Steffen