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Posted by timothy on Monday July 03, 2006 @06:17PM from the wide-wide-world-of-os-hacking dept.

Lisa writes "Jim Hall, creator of the open source MS-DOS operating system project FreeDOS, says that while work on the project may have slowed recently, he isn't ready to throw in the towel just yet. In fact, Hall says he hopes to see version 1.0 released as soon as the end of the month." (So rumors to the contrary can be safely ignored.)

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this is good! (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday July 03, 2006 @06:27PM (#15652895)

It means I can still play Duke Nukem 3D until DNF comes out. At least I don't have to worry about any lack of overlap in the DN releases...

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how's about Free95? (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday July 03, 2006 @06:27PM (#15652899)

Once we've gotten up to FreeDos 6.2, will the next release be Free95 (release date 2095), which replicates Windows 95 in a feature and bug-complete way?

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Obligatory joke, forgive me... (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday July 03, 2006 @06:51PM (#15653039)

Netcraft [netcraft.com] confirms it: FreeDOS is dying!

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Re:Let me be the first to ask.... (Score:3, Funny)

by TobyRush ( 957946 ) writes: on Monday July 03, 2006 @07:03PM (#15653103) Homepage

Hey, cool, man! I love Fritos too!

Oh, FreeDOS. Sorry, my mistake.

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Yeah, but will it support (Score:3, Funny)

by SensitiveMale ( 155605 ) writes: on Monday July 03, 2006 @07:12PM (#15653172)

DoubleSpace?

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Re:Let me be the first to ask.... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday July 03, 2006 @07:23PM (#15653252)

> Freedos rocks. Tcp/ip stack and...

Does this mean that I can finally get my PC XT on the Internet?

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Re:Let me be the first to ask.... (Score:3, Funny)

by MyLongNickName ( 822545 ) writes: on Monday July 03, 2006 @09:28PM (#15653922) Journal

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway. -John Wayne

Interesting quote from a draft dodger.

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Urgent : System requirements (Score:1, Funny)

by Afroblanco ( 966776 ) writes: <ceruleancaterpillar@hotmail.com> on Tuesday July 04, 2006 @02:22AM (#15654878)

Freedos 1.0 better have a working version of EDLIN. DOS just isn't DOS without EDLIN.

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Re:Version 1.0 due out soon? (Score:2, Funny)

by innocent_white_lamb ( 151825 ) writes: on Tuesday July 04, 2006 @02:51AM (#15654951)

C:>_

What else?

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