DOS ain't dead

The PLoP Boot Manager v5.0rc8 was released on 17 Febrary 2008.

"The PLoP Boot Manager is a small program to boot different operating systems. You can boot the operating systems from harddisk, floppy, CD/DVD or from USB.

You can start the boot manager from floppy, CD, network or USB. To start it from network or USB see PLoP Linux. You can install the boot manager on your harddisk too. There is no extra partition required for the boot manager."

(free but no sources)

Website: http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html

Sun 02/Mar/2008

Boot manager v5.0rc9 is available for download with USB driver updates (about legacy support) and some changes in the menu.

Website: http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html (free, no srcs)

> Sun 02/Mar/2008
>
> Boot manager v5.0rc9 is available for download with USB driver
> updates (about legacy support) and some changes in the menu.
>
> Website: http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html (free, no srcs)

Newer version, v5.0rc11 from 22/Apr/2008.

Changes:

> Tue 22/Apr/2008
>
> Boot manager v5rc11 released. I don't like such fast releases after
> a release, but i fixed the 'boot signature not valid' message at some
> usb devices.
>
> Mon 21/Apr/2008
>
> Boot manager v5rc10 released.
>
> The USB OHCI and UHCI drivers are updated. Primary the init routines
> are updated. The CDROM driver had a small update too.
>
> A new feature has been added. Now its possible to use floppy, cdrom or
> usb boot at startup like the default profile. This works in the hiden
> mode too.