We're looking at two alternative operating systems hitting updates. MenuetOS, the operating system written entirely in assembly, hit version 0.98.27. Meanwhile, FreeDOS 1.1 has hit final.
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Don't get your hopes up, hardware is always a mess, but try one of these:
http://mpxplay.sourceforge.net/
http://www.piotrkn22.republika.pl/judas/index.html
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When I lived in the embedded world, our OS was DOS. Not MS-DOS, or , saddly, not Free DOS, but Data Light ROMDOS. Which was not free, or good. Most of the utils were absolutely broken. I was not allowed to replace ROMDOS with FreeDOS in production, but did most of my development of our app on FreeDOS because stuff just worked.
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In the download section of the MenuetOS website, there's a link named "Download Menuet CD". You can follow that link to download an ISO file.
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Oh well... it's only really a "toy" OS to me to begin with, which DOSBox can replace for my typical use anyway.
DOSBox is only meant for games, not anything else. It is not meant to be a full DOS.
Anyways, I have no idea what you mean. It's not a downgrade, but indeed this prepackaged version is more minimal than the old full one as volunteers are extremely low. You'll have to download stuff individually if you want it, and I'm sure I can point you to whatever you were expecting.
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Yes, I know--and like I said, DOSBox does what I need.
You just mentioned some of the downsides of the "upgrade" right there, so I'm not sure how you have no idea what I mean: more minimal (could be an advantage to some people) and manual installation of most programs; basically lack of anything but the "base" CD. Lack of "live" portion of the disc is another step back, although IMO a less important one.
It's just disappointing after such a long wait to see such glaring steps back. If it had package management, it wouldn't be quite as bad... but it doesn't, at least as far as I know.
Edited 2012-01-04 00:00 UTC
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P.S. Since OS News (and others) never mentioned it, I guess now would be a good time to publicly mourn the passing of Pat Villani, the original author of the DOS-C kernel used by FreeDOS. He was head of the project, even recently, from 2009-11 until he got sick and never recovered. :-( Without his hard work, there literally would be no FreeDOS kernel (also used by DOSEMU). I know he's no Steve Jobs or Dennis Ritchie, but he still impacted a lot of us in a good way. The FreeDOS 1.1 release is dedicated to him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Villani
(thanks to Matthias Paul for defending and expanding that article)