On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 5:39 PM Wilhelm Spiegl <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jim, > > sorry for this comment, i beg your pardon, but do you know that at least > three programs on the calendar do not really work? > > fdisk is still a chaos, see my and Mr Böckmanns and others comments > at gitlab, > > defrag (and all hd tools like chkdsk etc. do not support fat32, scandisk > reports on a 2 tb that only 1 or 2 fats are supported, but not 77, > confirmed by Mr. Böckmann at bttr-software.de), > > htmlhelp, even the one not yet published version that I got from Andy > Stamp, causes crashes when running too long, > > edit, see gitlab,
I created the calendar for myself and shared the images for anyone who wants to make their own calendar. The link to Lulu is there for anyone who wants to order the same calendar I did. I know about the issues you mentioned, but I don't think these are so critical that screenshots cannot go on a wall calendar. It's just a wall calendar. FDISK is the standard tool we use, I know the code is messy, but it works for many use cases. DEFRAG doesn't support FAT32, but my disk is a few hundred MB, so FAT32 isn't really an issue. HTML Help is definitely buggy and I'd like to replace it, but I thought it would be nice to see the Help content on the calendar; we had AMB Help on last year's calendar. > > this is the reason why i proposed the google summer of code. I think > at least two programmers are necessary to fix the problems i know and > documented at gitlab and other sites. [..] I'd love for FreeDOS to participate in Google Summer of Code. IIRC, this program doesn't require the participating open source projects to have funds to join? [website is https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ ; wikipedia page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code] While people can always join FreeDOS at any time and contribute whenever they want, the Summer of Code program would provide a recognized program that might attract some university students to become new developers. And that would be great! Looks like the application period for open source projects starts in a week or so. I'll start a new thread to see what folks would suggest we put into the application. Jim > Jim Hall wrote: >> >> Like last year, I wanted to have a FreeDOS-themed 2023 wall calendar >> for my office. So I just made one for myself, and made it available >> for anyone to buy. If you'd like a printed copy for yourself, you can >> order it on Lulu: >> >> https://www.lulu.com/shop/jim-hall/freedos-calendar-2023/paperback/product-qp5k8v.html >> >> I'll let you know how mine comes out, in case you'd like to know >> before ordering yours. My calendar should arrive in about 2 weeks. (So >> I'll miss January, which is why I used a very similar image for >> December.) >> >> >> The screenshots are from FreeDOS 1.3, and are Creative Commons >> Sharealike-Attribution. If you'd like to download the images for >> yourself, I've uploaded them to: [..] _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
