FreeDOS 1.1 Released

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Posted by Unknown on Wednesday January 4, 2012 @05:42AM from the we-don't-need-no-memory-protection dept.

MrSeb writes with this excerpt from an Extreme Tech article about the latest FreeDOS release and a bit of project history: "Some 17 years after its first release in 1994, and more than five years since 1.0, FreeDOS 1.1 is now available to download. The history of FreeDOS stems back to the summer of 1994 when Microsoft announced that MS-DOS as a separate product would no longer be supported. It would live on as part of Windows 95, 98, and (ugh!) Me, but for Jim Hall that wasn't enough, and so public domain (PD) DOS was born. ... Despite what you might think, FreeDOS isn't an 'old' OS; it's actually quite usable. FreeDOS supports FAT32, UDMA for hard drives and DVD drives, and it even has antivirus and BitTorrent clients." The official release announcement has more details on the improvements, and the FreeDOS website has the release for download.

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Re:But what use would I have for it? by Millennium · 2012-01-04 05:48 · Score: 5, Funny

Someone needs to make a CoreBoot-style bootloader that uses this. Then they could call it "DOS Boot".
I'm now waiting on FreeQEMM by SensitiveMale · 2012-01-04 05:50 · Score: 4, Funny

and FreeDESQview as well.
Re:But what use would I have for it? by ruanime · 2012-01-04 05:58 · Score: 4, Funny

I mean seriously, how am I going to use it?
Running old programs maybe?
Yeah I would, maybe one day I can start that BBS that I always wanted.
Screenshot of 1.1 by sootman · 2012-01-04 06:05 · Score: 5, Funny

C:\>_
(Hmm, never noticed how much that looks like a clown smiley.)

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A new OS?! This changes everything! by brillow · 2012-01-04 06:09 · Score: 5, Funny

Does it have an app store?
Re:But what use would I have for it? by TheGratefulNet · 2012-01-04 06:20 · Score: 4, Funny

DIL_
(system hung...)
Dammit! I gotta go rebuild dilo again. again!

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Re:Kid's first OS by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-04 06:27 · Score: 0, Funny

Because I'd like them to someday have a job.
Re:But what use would I have for it? by Cro+Magnon · 2012-01-04 06:31 · Score: 4, Funny

I mean seriously, how am I going to use it?
Running old programs maybe?
POS apps. Embedded apps. Yes all legacy stuff, but even in a VM, emulating UDMA and a DVD drive is useful.
But don't most Piece Of Shit apps run under Windows?

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Re:Kid's first OS by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-04 06:38 · Score: 5, Funny

"I told you, tou're not getting your kitten back until you configure HIMEM.SYS and solve that IRQ conflict with the Gravis UltraSound!"
Re:But what use would I have for it? by couchslug · 2012-01-04 08:15 · Score: 1, Funny

This is Farkdot, not the old Slashdot.
No technical posts plox. (runs)

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Re:But what use would I have for it? by MichaelSmith · 2012-01-04 09:21 · Score: 4, Funny

POS apps
No, I don't think Eclipse runs in DOS.

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