Today, we mark 28 years of FreeDOS (June 29, 1994). I just want to take a minute to recognize all the hard work folks have put in over the years:
Pat Villani wrote our first kernel, and others kept it going, including Bart Oldeman, John Price, Tom Ehlert, Charles Dye, Eric Auer, Jim Tabor, Arkady, Bernd, Jeremy David, and a list of other contributors. Tim Norman wrote the first version of FreeCOM, and has been maintained by a long list of folks including John Price, Tom Ehlert, Ken Davis, Bart Oldeman, and others. I know I'll miss a bunch of contributions, so just a short list of some other cool developers: Aitor contributed KEYB, and Tom contributed MKEYB. Both support keyboards with different languages. Joe Cosentino wrote FreeDOS Edit, which makes editing easy. Gregory Pietsch wrote FreeDOS Edlin, for those who want the classic editor experience. Ralf Quint has been part of FreeDOS since the very early days and has contributed patches and improvements all over FreeDOS. Eric Auer has contributed a bunch of FreeDOS components, including FDAPM to control power. Tom Ehlert has written utilities and made improvements to FreeDOS. You can find Tom's improvements in a bunch of changelogs. Steffen Kaiser wrote several utilities and useful libraries for FreeDOS, including SUBST and JOIN. ..and more! There are too many of you to mention by name. But I just want to say THANK YOU to everyone for continuing to work on FreeDOS. Open source takes a community, including developers, translators, testers, documenters, users, and more. Whether you write code, test programs, write documentation, translate messages, write about FreeDOS .. you are part of the FreeDOS community. Jim _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
