Op 14-4-2010 9:38, Michael C. Robinson schreef: > I went by nute on the ReactOS forums. Look and you can see how dicey > things got. > Ah I remember reading those threads you started, with asking over and over again whenever a new/next release would come out. They're releasing more often than FreeDOS at least. I think they got more people working on it. The thing the FreeDOS distribution needs is a better installer program (requires real programming), updated packages (boring as hell, I don't even like to put research into commandline options to archivers anymore nowadays) and bugfixing.
Anyway, ReactOS has multiple near-daily built ISO9660 cd-image files available which you can test in an emulator. Sadly they only allow installation from CDROM yet still, no USB, harddisk or network installation options yet. A matter of priority and programming time I guess. Their releases feature a LiveCD, an installation CD with trunk builds and something called ARWINSS, which would be some kind of use of WINE (same way of usage as Linux does). This latest thing is claimed to be best chance to get ReactOS in a usable state. Anyway, we're on a FreeDOS development mailinglist. I'll save my efforts of dualbooting FreeDOS and ReactOS for whenever I got more time off work and get bored enough to actually spend time on FreeDOS. Lack of opensource ASPI driver and packet drivers for recent network cards is demotivating if you want to try to get anything done :) Then again, something like http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=7843 is very motivating (general BIOS flashing program FLASHROM ported from Coreboot/Linux to DOS, seems UPX-compressible but might be dangerous) Same for the opensource ELTORITO driver. > I would like a direct replacement for Windows 98SE which supports a lot > of games and other software that is now orphanware. There is hardware > for Windows 9x that doesn't work on NT based versions of Windows. I > realize that this is not a Freedos 1.1 thing or potentially even a > Freedos 3.0 thing. An alternative is to revive Freedos 32 and develop > a simple GUI for it that will attract open source programmers. > Not worthwile I guess, use Windows98. There's not even a replacement yet for Win3.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
