DOS ain't dead

Japheth 2008 DOS Man of the Year (Announce)

posted by ecm  , Düsseldorf, Germany, 11.01.2009, 11:01

> > But seeing the FreeDOS kernel mess it might be a better idea to wait
> for
> > cm to provide us a bug-free, fast, LFN-aware, nice and cool RxDOS ...
>
>
> No offense to anybody, but I think RxDOS is too buggy as is. Now, if he
> wants to fix those bugs, that's fine. But for now, it's not as useful as
> FreeDOS.

That's the reason Japheth wrote "wait" and "bug-free". No, I don't have released any RxDOS version yet. Yes, currently available RxDOS versions have tons of bugs (as I've already said often).

> > The new, shiny FreeDOS bug tracker is useless if there's no one
> > reading it. (Same for RxDOS's SF.net bug tracker, but then again
> > nobody is promoting this one.)
>
> RxDOS' SourceForge site doesn't even have the latest binaries or various
> other things, so that's not a reliable "homepage", IMHO. And it's not
> updated or maintained, so it's effectively frozen.

Yes. Until some weeks ago, it had some binaries (labeled 7.2beta) and 6.x sources, but Mike removed these. I'm now a developer of the SF.net project too, so I might later mirror 7.1.5 (buggy) and any version I'll release there. (I could put up 7.1.5 (from the FreeDOS mirrors) right now if anyone's interested.)

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Complete thread:

• 7-Zip 4.62 released - Rugxulo, 06.12.2008, 12:23 (Announce)
  • 7-Zip 4.63 released 2008-12-31 - DOS386, 01.01.2009, 13:03
    • 7-Zip 4.64 released 2009-01-03 - DOS386, 04.01.2009, 11:08
      • p7zip 4.61 for DJGPP - Rugxulo, 04.01.2009, 21:16
        • p7zip 4.61 for DJGPP (but hates FreeDOS??) - Rugxulo, 06.01.2009, 03:11
          • mieh tuh! - Japheth, 07.01.2009, 07:58
            • mieh tuh! - Rugxulo, 09.01.2009, 00:46
              • mieh tuh! - Japheth, 09.01.2009, 18:09
                • mieh tuh! - ecm, 09.01.2009, 18:31
                  • mieh tuh! - RayeR, 12.01.2009, 14:04
                • Japheth 2008 DOS Man of the Year - Rugxulo, 09.01.2009, 23:28
                  • Japheth 2008 DOS Man of the Year - ecm, 11.01.2009, 11:01
            • miau tuh! | CTL-C-BUG of what ??? - DOS386, 24.01.2009, 09:20
        • p7zip 4.61 for DJGPP (refreshed) - Rugxulo, 16.01.2009, 01:54
      • 7-Zip 4.64 released 2009-02-03 - Rugxulo, 19.02.2009, 02:29