Hi: This is sort of a quandary. If you’re trying to keep the media compatible with older systems (with only a cd-rom drive), the Development CD idea may be the right thing. On the other hand, I don’t mind the concept of a DVD, providing FreeDOS’ tools can handle it, as I have no older hardware. But, there are still many people who have the room and skills to keep that old hardware running, and, it wouldn’t be fair to leave them out, so, I’m leaning to the 3 CD approach. Of course, how long will it be before it gets to there needing to be 4 CD’s and such. It’s mind-boggling to see just how much stuff for DOS is still around and in development. On another note, I just corresponded with Sammy Mitchell of Semware. The Semware Editor (TSE) has gone into Freeware, and, he tells me that the DOS version will also eventually be freeware and open-source. Whether the license is compatible remains to be seen, but, he’s going into a community-supported model. It’s great to see folks wanting to preserve this software, and, use it too. Cheers! Sent from Mail for Windows From: Jerome Shidel Hello All, I’ve just uploaded this months Interim Build to ibiblio. To test T2210, you can fetch it from http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/test/ I’ve warned about this several times. But with the recent updates and few additions to the DJGPP packages, the BonusCD has blown way past the upper limits of a CD. At approximately 925mb, it will require a DVD to burn the image to disc. I don’t think a 925mb “CD” is a good thing. As I see it, this leaves us with 3 choices: 1) Drop nearly 300mb of packages from the CD. 2) Do nothing and call it a DVD 3) Move all development related packages onto their own disc. Have DevelCD and seperate BonusCD. Let’s try and resolve this before the next build. :-) Also, this latest build mostly consists of some NLS updates, a few updates (like vmsmount, v8power and keyb) and of course the DJGPP stuff. :-) Jerome |
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