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FreeDOS 1.0 born after 12-year gestation (NewsForge)
NewsForge covers
the release of FreeDOS 1.0. "FreeDOS was originally slated for
release at the end of July, but Hall says he decided to take a few extra
weeks to make sure everything was just right before making 1.0 available
for download. "Nothing very unusual came up in the last weeks, except a
tiny problem in our preliminary FreeDOS 1.0 distros where we could make
your hard drive unbootable if you happened to have Win32 on it," said
Hall. "We figured it would be bad to make a 1.0 release until we fixed
that. Based on all the downloads we've gotten since the announcement, I'm
really glad we decided to give it a few more weeks to get things
right.""
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Hitting a fatal bug at the first boot attempt Posted Sep 19, 2006 5:20 UTC (Tue) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] FreeDOS 1.0 crashes when trying to access a CD-ROM with no disc in it. It looks like "12-year gestation" doesn't protect against simple and nasty bugs. Extensive testing by many users is much better at that. Hopefully the 1.0 release will attract more users who will discover the remaining bugs.
Hitting a fatal bug at the first boot attempt Posted Sep 19, 2006 6:34 UTC (Tue) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link] That's how you know it's really DOS! Don't you remember?
No link to FreeDOS itself?
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