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From: Ralf Q. <fre...@gm...> - 2014-12-31 23:50:24
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On 12/31/2014 10:40 AM, Michael Brutman wrote: > I am a little skeptical about the prospects for success on this project. > > The FreeDOS roadmap ( > http://www.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/FreeDOS_Road_Map ) is out of > date and short on details. I would like to see a broad discussion on > the roadmap, get consensus and have it updated. > > Anything that uses the name "FreeDOS" should be reserved for the > classic 16 bit operating system. A new project that uses a > fundamentally different kernel should not just have a different > version number; it's a different OS. I would expect them to call it > "FreeDOS-32 v1.0" or something like that, not FreeDOS v2.0. You > should do this to preserve your trademark protections too. > > Trying to find somebody on freelancer.com <http://freelancer.com> to > do work on FreeDOS-32 is going to fail. It's just not going to > happen. The crowd-sourcing programming sites attract people who are > very optimized to do a specific piece of work, such as making a new > web site using a particular framework. Operating system skills and > DOS skills are not going to be available, and nobody is going to want > to trudge up the learning curve for a very limited duration gig. > FreeDOS contributors are hobbyists - they do it because they are > interested. There is no financial incentive to work on it and the > knowledge is esoteric and not in demand. It's not a good candidate > for outsourcing. > > The Kickstarter project may prove me wrong. I am interested to see if > it does. But at a minimum please consider throwing that project back > in its own namespace and not polluting "FreeDOS". > > > > Mike > > On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Jim Hall <jh...@fr... > <mailto:jh...@fr...>> wrote: > > Chelson Aitcheson has just started an independent Kickstarter > project to fund development for FreeDOS-32, in support of a > FreeDOS 2.0 distribution. I will also post a note about this on > the FreeDOS website, but I wanted to share a link here for those > who wanted to contribute. > > https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1597889412/freedos-20-32-bit > > The Kickstarter aims to raise $2,500 by Thursday, January 29 2015. > Chelson's goal is to hire public developers through freelancer.com > <http://freelancer.com> to improve FreeDOS-32. If FreeDOS-32 can > be significantly improved, Chelson hopes it will become part of > mainline FreeDOS. > > I'll add that I haven't used FreeDOS-32 but if it supports classic > DOS programs on modern systems while adding new and useful > features, I would support that kernel update in FreeDOS 2.0. > +1 Anything "32 bit", unless it would refer to a DOSExtender, for which there are now at least a couple Open Source one, simply is not DOS anymore. And certainly nothing that would be able to run "classic DOS programs". A better spend time (and money?) would be to convince someone at the SeaBIOS project to help providing an (U)EFI boot stub, upon which a "classic" 16bit FreeDOS then could boot just "like in the old days" on the newest systems... Ralf --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com |