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FreeDOS finally hits 1.0 milestone (ZDNet)

[Posted September 7, 2006 by cook]

ZDNet covers the release of FreeDOS version 1.0. ""FreeDOS 1.0 is a major milestone that has finally been released. By now, we have a stable and viable MS-DOS replacement," the project team said this week. Recent improvements to the package include long file name support in several applications, including a free CD-ROM driver, FAT32 file system support within the kernel and most other applications, and improved stability within the HIMEM device driver and EMM386 memory manager."

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Posted Sep 11, 2006 2:21 UTC (Mon) by gdt (subscriber, #6284) [Link]

I've found FreeDOS to be quite reliable for installing BIOS updates when installed on its own small partition on a Linux machine. That avoids the problem of requiring a Windows license in order to hold a license to run MS-DOS to apply a BIOS update.

FreeDOS finally hits 1.0 milestone (ZDNet)

Posted Sep 14, 2006 7:01 UTC (Thu) by lacostej (subscriber, #2760) [Link]

Completely agree.

I wish that BIOS update writers considered shipping their programs inside FreeDOS ISO instead of .exe programs.