Because I really hate throwing away old stuff (which is why my basement looks the way it does) and because the entire FreeDOS archive at ibiblio is "only" 4.6GB (not very big) I decided _not_ to delete the old distros. However, I did clean up the 'distributions' directory: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/
This now has the following subdirectories: > 1.0-Testing > 1.0 > official.old > tools > unofficial You can/should guess by the 'unofficial' and 'official.old' that I'll create an 'official' directory when we make our next official FreeDOS release, and move "1.0" and "1.0-Testing" (and "2.0") under there. Until then, I didn't want to break links that people may have. I thought having an 'official' and 'unofficial' would make it more clear as to which was officially released by FreeDOS, and which were FreeDOS-based distros that we were mirroring for someone else. Summary of cleanup under 'official.old': http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/official.old/ All of the Alpha and Beta versions were moved here, and renamed the directories with a version number indicative of its release status, with "ALPHA" or "BETA" tacked on the end to make it very clear. For example: "beta7" was renamed "0.7.BETA". Also, "ripcord" got moved under "official.old", since it was an official offshoot of Beta7. Thinking about renaming "ripcord" to "0.7-ripcord" or something, to relate it to Beta7. A little further cleanup under 'unofficial': http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/ Basically, stuff from 'old' got moved here with a ".old" extension. ODIN got its own directory. Stuff from "1disk" got moved here with a ".1" extension. -jh Jim Hall wrote: > Hi. I'd like to take a moment to start cleaning up the ibiblio > archive. Specifically, the "old" directories under "distributions". > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/old/ > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/oldblairdistros/ > > It doesn't save much space (about 1GB) but seems an obvious candidate > for pruning. > > > Other things to delete under "distributions": > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/ripcord/ > *last updated 2003 ... based on FreeDOS Beta7 > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/fdoslite/ > *last updated April 2005 ... seems based on Beta9 > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/fdosgame/old/ > *old Games distro ... current version mirrored one level up > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1disk/ > *last updated April 2005 .. original location for ODIN = One Disk INstaller > > > If there are no objections, I will likely delete these files over the > weekend. > > > For those of you keeping track, that leaves the following directories at > the "distributions" level: > > >> 1.0-Testing >> 1.0 >> cddjgpp >> fdosgame >> gnudos >> tools ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
