Re: [Freedos-devel] Horrible Joke on FreeDOS.org??

2006-06-29 Thread Blair Campbell
I'm preparing FreeDOS 1.0-pre1 as we speak. On 6/29/06, Michael Devore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 06:28 PM 6/29/2006 -0500, Jim Hall wrote: > > >I don't _really_ think FreeDOS is dead. But we have stalled. There > >hasn't been any new development with FreeDOS in a long time. The last > >

Re: [Freedos-devel] Horrible Joke on FreeDOS.org??

2006-06-29 Thread Michael Devore
At 06:28 PM 6/29/2006 -0500, Jim Hall wrote: >I don't _really_ think FreeDOS is dead. But we have stalled. There >hasn't been any new development with FreeDOS in a long time. The last >news item on the web site was posted 8 June, but the last FreeDOS news >item dates back to 16 May and 11 Janu

Re: [Freedos-devel] Why 1.0

2006-06-29 Thread Alain M.
Hi Jim, I have been following FreeDOS for many years now and I am very sad that so many people are loosing interest when we are so close to having a working FreeDOS ... I will start working more hands on. Mainly because I will start *using* FreeDOS. The only bug that I cannot be sure of fixing

Re: [Freedos-devel] Horrible Joke on FreeDOS.org??

2006-06-29 Thread Lyrical Nanoha
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Jim Hall wrote: > I don't _really_ think FreeDOS is dead. But we have stalled. There > hasn't been any new development with FreeDOS in a long time. The last > news item on the web site was posted 8 June, but the last FreeDOS news > item dates back to 16 May and 11 January.

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS birthday

2006-06-29 Thread BIAF
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[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS birthday

2006-06-29 Thread Eric Auer
Hi everybody, if I remember correctly, FreeDOS turned 12 this week. I would say this is a nice time for a birthday edition of the distro :-). Do you have forgotten updates somewhere on your harddisk or patches which you never got around to wrap up in a zip or cvs upload yet? Then now would be th

[Freedos-devel] Why 1.0 (was: Horrible Joke)

2006-06-29 Thread Jim Hall
Jim Hall wrote: > [...] > It's as though we're afraid of the "1.0" label, sort of asymptotically > approaching "1.0" but never really getting there. > A lot of people probably wonder "why is '1.0' so important?" I feel we need to get "1.0" out there to draw a line in the sand, that we're a

Re: [Freedos-devel] Horrible Joke on FreeDOS.org??

2006-06-29 Thread Jim Hall
Blair Campbell wrote: > Why is there a horrible joke on www.freedos.org?? > FreeDOS is definitely NOT dead, and it IS close to 1.0. > In short, not dead. Man, I did a really stupid thing with the web site. I've gotten so much email on this that it's a lesson I won't soon forget. The tru