Hi! Do you include MPXPLAY too? Would be very interesting for many users.
Bye Flo Blair Campbell wrote: > Just to let you know, due to lack of bugfixes in the graphical > installer, it cannot be included with 1.0, otherwise people would > blame us for releasing buggy software. The text installer works > pretty much everywhere and is much more stable. > > Unless anyone releases a showstopper-fixed graphical installer :-). > > Aitor: Keyb 2.0 pre4 will be included if you cannot manage to get 2.0 > released in time (no pressure). > > And as for SYS, since on some drives (but this is rare to reproduce, > but nonetheless reported by more than one person) fails to recognize > FAT32 LBA partitions, marking them as FAT16 non-LBA instead and > creating a wrong bootsector, so for all FAT32 drives, GRUB4DOS will be > used instead of SYS as it can correctly directly boot FreeDOS kernels > on FAT32 disks... again, unless this problem is fixed. > (and I have enough things to do :-)) > > As for FDISK, I am using the Jeremy-possibly-bugfixed version and > including XFDISK (GPL) as a second option for the user. > > In FreeCOM world, 0.84pre2 will be used for the testing release; it > fully supports long filenames and I don't see any new bugs since > 0.84pre1. If people end up having many problems, I will fall back to > 0.84pre1 for 1.0. > > FDPKG 1.0-pre will be installed by default for package management, and > a modified text installer will do its best to integrate package > management into the installed FreeDOS (including removal of unwanted > packages, dependency checking, etc..) Included with it is a utility > that uses specified files to rename short filenames to long filenames > needed by some packages. That way, the long filenames can survive > being zipped and unzipped with an Info-Zip that doesn't support long > filenames. > > As for the packages themselves, the extra diskset got too big, so I > split it into many disksets, like driver, compress, and games (and > yes, there is FreeDOOM+DOOM Legacy included :-) ). What good OS > doesn't have games? > > p7zip 4.42 stable compiled with DJGPP is also included, and possibly > in the future, the CD-Images of FreeDOS will have all packages packed > with 7zip to save space. > > With regards to the floppy disksets, they will not be released at > first. When I REALLY have the time, I will get them out for their > slightly smaller audience. > > Michael Devore: I'm eagerly awaiting that upcoming EMM386 so that it > can be included :-). > > I was hoping to include OpenGEM/XM, as it has very good > task-switching/clipboard capabilities, but since SUBST is buggy in > FreeDOS, it seems that that isn't going to happen this time 'round. > OpenGEM will be included however. > > Ghostscript, ImageMagick, and various other Unix-DJGPP ports of > software will be included, and BSFIRC will be included for an IRC > client. > > Before I release the testing version, I will try to test thouroughly > in QEMU, but that is the best I can do. I am relying on feedback. > > One thing is for sure though, that if 1.0 is a failure, FreeDOS could > suffer greatly, so testers are REALLY appreciated. If we do end up > having to postpone the release for one more month due to some > showstopping bugs, we will have to let everyone know that because many > are awaiting 1.0 eagerly. > > Thanks all! > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
