Hi! > What is the verdict, is compression slated for Freedos 1.1 or down > the road?
Compression seems to be low priority - such a driver was meant more as a fun gimmick than as a cool feature in the first place, so I would say 1.1 will come when Geraldo and others are done with packaging ZIPs of the many updated packages, without trying to add compression first and without waiting for compression... You can see the compression idea as separate from the 1.1 distro. That said, if you want to help putting updated packages into ZIP files, please let Geraldo and me know :-). Many DOS programs got updated since 1.0, as you can see on freedos.org => software. We want to collect and zip the new versions so we can make 1.1 :-). > I'm curious, is the FAT implementation for ReactOS compatible with > Freedos? Theoretically, since ReactOS only supports Fat16/32 right > now, it should be possible for Freedos and ReactOS to share the same > files system. Of course. You can say ALL versions of DOS (MS, PC, DR, EDR, PTS, ROM, Free and whatever-else-DOS) use the same FAT12 and FAT16. Those which support FAT32 also use the same FAT32 :-). However, if there is compression, it usually differs between DOS versions. > Regarding file system support aside from compression, is anything > else planned for Freedos 1.1 or down the road? Not that I know. You can use NTFS4DOS (free for personal use in the Avira version) but we cannot bundle it with our CDROM so you have to download it yourself. On the BTTR forum, some people wondered whether OS/2 HPFS would be a nice addition for EDR-DOS and others: It seems to have better performance but similar limitations to FAT, and most of the HPFS patents have already expired or will expire soonish :-). Do you have further suggestions for file system support? Eric PS: You can also use LTOOLS to access ext2fs and maybe ext3fs drives. In any case, you should not access drives of another OS while it is hibernating / sleeping (suspend to disk) - only after full shutdown. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
