[Request] FreeDOS
There is an operating system that's like MS-DOS called "FreeDOS" AKA "PD-DOS". It's a disk operating system for IBM PC compatible computers. It provides a DOS environment for running legacy software and supporting embedded systems. This disk operating system can be booted from floppy disk or USB flash drive, and is designed to run well under virtualization and x86 emulation. FreeDOS is composed of free and open-source software, unlike MS-DOS.
They still have newer versions of FreeDOS, but there are older versions; it came out in 1998 by the way. You could at least do the alpha and beta releases of FreeDOS, which came out from 1994-2004.
So yeah, this is just an idea for a disk operating system that you maybe could offer.
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It is open-source it can't be uploaded here...
@Meowlit12 said:
What exactly do you mean open-source software can't be uploaded on WinWorld?
The real reason is that FreeDOS is not currently abandonware. It is still in active development; therefore, there is no need to upload it to WinWorld.
it's Source is open and is easily modifiable. and it's freely available to almost anyone though their site www.freedos.org and is NOT abandonware.
@Meowlit12 I believe you are correct. FreeDOS is still supported and therefore would not qualify to be on WinWorld. My guess is that an operating system or software would be abandonware if its working state is discontinued; if an OS or software has a current working state, then it is not abandonware.
The old versions of FreeDOS are freely redistributable. Additionaly they are of little historical importance and serve no benefit to the Winworld community. For example, there is no software that requires the early versions, and the very early versions were essentially unfinished buggy betas. Therefor Winworld does not need to host them here.
However, if nobody has archived the earlier version publicly on the internet, feel free to discuss them here, dig up old copies, and share them amongst one another.