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!
> 

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