Hi Flox! Talking about FreeDOS 2.0, there will hopefully be 1.1 early this summer, as many packages have been updated since we released 1.0, and some issues in 1.0 should be fine tuned anyway :-).
> *Using 4DOS as standard command tool, and Bash or freecom as choice. I still think FreeCOM is the better default, has most compatibility. But the others should certainly be included. As for example ReginaRexx and Perl for DOS and FreeBasic.net :-). > *Using JEMM as memory manager Very good idea. And JEMMX as option - it has plugins, one might eventually write a "virtual SB16 to AC97 hardware" plugin for that plugin system. Another candidate might be DISPLAY, as that uses quite a bit of RAM. > *Using HX Extender & Co to support Windows programs in DOS I would just include it, but would not load any DOS extender as TSR by default. > *PythonD as modern script language Why not... > *Using an Editor which supports large files (like FED or SETEDIT) Maybe not as default - SETEDIT is really big - but SETEDIT should nevertheless be INSTALLED by default. And/or FED. > *One standard file manager (my choice would be FW or NDN) To be more exact: At least one file manager and GUI should be part of a "recommended" install. > *No more 386- support It does not make much difference to compile most apps for 8086, so I would only optimize those for 386+ where you get a real gain from 32bit and/or protected mode usage. Dosfsck and the caches are good examples of 386+ modules. While only few people use pre-386 CPU, I still prefer to keep using FreeDOS as such useable on ancient PC. Of course you can always say "PC XT users can use FreeDOS 1.0"... > I also think, that it shouldn't be a BIG collection of all > free DOS programs. Agreed, for example bootablecd.de has a separate games CD anyway, and there are piles and piles of freeware, shareware and abandonware for DOS. It is certainly not our mission to throw all those in some ISO or anything. Our distro should fit on 1 CDROM, at most a few 100 MB installed, with mostly open source and other very free software. Possible with 1.0, when you skip the few largest packages, you get a 100 MB DOS. > than one (like file managers) we could make a poll at freedos.org > where user and developer can choose them. I see no problem in including 2-3 file managers, but before we would include 10, we should better vote for the 2-5 best. > Network: Latest Arachne (a much more advanced version should be > distributed soon) is a ''must", also tools like WGET. And one big We should really talk about internet with DOS more - it seems many people do use their old PC with DOS and Arachne to have a second "surf PC" around, so FreeDOS should make a statement that we do support that use of DOS, too. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
