Re: [Freedos-devel] Update on website redesign

2022-02-16 Thread Bret Johnson
For me, the thing I usually do is look for one particular utility program to download (e.g., the latest version of SWSUBST or KEYB or something like that). I'm not looking to install FreeDOS as a whole. Finding out where/how to do that is complicated and confusing. In your usability personas,

[Freedos-devel] RAMdrive install problem (on bare metal)

2022-02-16 Thread [email protected]
I am new to FreeDOS and trying to convert over to RC5 from a bare metal USB BOOT disk that does not use any FreeDOS material. With my old setup, I successfully created two RAM drives (D:\ and E:\) of approximately 1.3 G Byte and 128 M Byte respectively. The C:\ drive was just the USB stick itse

[Freedos-devel] Reminder: FreeDOS virtual get-together on Sunday, Feb 20

2022-02-16 Thread Jim Hall
Hi everyone! Just a reminder that our next virtual get-together is coming up THIS SUNDAY, February 20. Email is great, but sometimes it helps to put a face to a name, so we aren't all just people behind an email address. We like to get together once a month to get to know each other a little bett

[Freedos-devel] Update on website redesign

2022-02-16 Thread Jim Hall
Hi everyone! It's been a while since I talked about the website redesign. It's been a slow process, but I finally have an iteration live on the test site: https://test.freedos.org/ This design is definitely an improvement on the current design at https://www.freedos.org/ but it's not perfect. To

Re: [Freedos-devel] Update on website redesign

2022-02-16 Thread Jim Hall
*This email is about usability testing process. If you aren't interested in this topic, you can skip this message. [..] > I've been working on the website redesign as a "slow burn" project for > the last several months. What drove me to get this iteration finished > is that I'm working on a usabil

Re: [Freedos-devel] Update on website redesign

2022-02-16 Thread Jim Hall
*This email is about usability testing. If you aren't interested in this topic, you can skip this message. On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 4:31 PM Jim Hall wrote: > > Hi everyone! > > It's been a while since I talked about the website redesign. It's been > a slow process, but I finally have an iteration

Re: [Freedos-devel] Any package updates for FreeDOS 1.3?

2022-02-16 Thread Michael Brutman
Thanks for the explanation. The separate directory is perfect, and also logical/expected. While the current FreeDOS is up to date with mTCP, that never lasts. And then we have the people who installed FreeDOS years ago, which is why I keep getting support questions for ancient versions. I think