Hi!
> "FreeDOS installation has to fit standard 650 MB CD" Even then I disagree. While you could fill entire DVD with stuff for DOS, a FreeDOS CD could be a lot smaller if you omit a few, but huge packages. For example DJGPP can be a reasonable number of megabytes, but you can also fill the whole FreeDOS CD just with everything you find over there at delorie: http://delorie.com/djgpp/zip-picker.html Just the 3 most common programming languages and RHIDE would already be 72 MB (34 GCC, 15 G++, 6 RHIDE, 6 GAS, 4 GDB etc.). Add EMACS with everything: 54 MB. Objective C: 22 MB. GRX: 2 MB Allegro: Up to 19 MB Extra doc formats: 20 MB Now you already are at 200 MB... Add the source code for everything: Voila, 423 MB purely for DJGPP just some of their 3 GB kitchen sink of data: http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/mirroring.html As opposed to just C (no C++, no IDE) plus their own Pakke package manager to install the rest: 52 MB, while people can still move to a more full installation later. And I am sure you can make a MUCH lighter version if you take the effort to so some manual selection of subsets. Now DJGPP is a thing which I would enjoy in the distro, but think for example about https://harbour.github.io/ the classic Clipper clone. Who is actually programming in that language using FreeDOS? Not including it on ISO will save 5 to 11 MB, we can still provide it ONLINE as packages for separate download. Cheers, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
