Hi Michael, > How is it [FreeDOS 1.1] coming along?
A crucial part of the work for 1.1 is putting all packages which got updated since 1.0 into zips in installable shape. In other words, download them from their author's web pages and make 2 zips with our standard directory structure, one without the binaries and with the sources and one without the sources and with the binaries (I personally prefer if BOTH zips contain the docs etc). You can see which updated zips are already there at http://mateusz.viste.free.fr/fdupdate/ and you can contact Mateusz to help by giving us more zips. You can see which versions are available (apart from by going at all homepages, maybe fdupdate missed an update from time to time) by looking at our LSM list of packages / URLs / maintainers / versions / ... at http://www.freedos.org/freedos/software/ - I suggest to provide packages ONLY for "base" updates for now, so we can at least have FreeDOS 1.1 BASE soon :-). You can also find a collection of various nice updates which are not yet in "FreeDOS installer / fdupdate / fdpkg compatible" shape, as well as a nice 2-3 diskette distro with all the BASE binaries but no docs etc at http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/ - Rugxulo also depends on your input: To make a proper distro, we have to put all sources into an extra download so whoever downloads the Rugxulo distro also has an easy way to download the sources for it - the GNU GPL license requires that. The URLs for the sources are already available in one file: http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/fdpkgnew.txt If you want to help, please contact me - I might do a part of those downloads myself, then we can split the work :-). As you see, how close FreeDOS 1.1 is mostly depends on how many volunteers we find for helping us to get there! Thanks in advance for your help everybody :-) Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
