After five years of development Published Stable version of the operating system Freedos 1.3 , within which a free DOS alternative is developing with a surroundings from the GNU utility. At the same time Available New edition of the shell FDTUI 0.8 (Freedos Text User Interface) with the implementation of the user interface for Freedos. The Freedos code is distributed under the license license GPLv2, the size of the loading ISO image – 375 MB.
Freedos project was founded in 1994 and in current realities can be applied in areas such as presetting the minimum environment to new computers, launch of old games, use on an embedded technique (for example, POS terminals), students’ training the basics of construction of operating systems , use in emulators (for example, DOSEMU), creating a CD / Flash to install firmware and setting up the motherboard.
Some Freedos features:
- Support FAT-32 and long file names;
- the ability to run network applications;
- Disk cache implementation;
- Support Himem memory management systems, EMM386 and UMBPCI. JEMM386 memory manager;
- Printing system support; Drivers for CD-ROM, mouse;
- ACPI support, temporary falling asleep and work in energy-saving mode;
- included Media Player MPXPLAY with support for MP3, OGG and WMV;
- XDMA and XDVD – UDMA drivers for hard drives and DVD drives;
- CUTEMOUSE mouse driver;
- Utilities for working with archives 7zip, info-zip zip and unzip;
- EDIT and SETEDIT multi-light text editors, as well as PG file viewer;
- Freecom – Command Sheath with Autodopping File File File;
- network support, web browsers Links and Dillo, BitTorrent client;
- Availability of a batch manager and support for the installation of various parts of the OS in the form of packages ;
- Set ported from Linux programs (DJGPP).
- Set of high-performance network applications MTCP;
- Support USB controllers and the ability to work with USB Flash.
in new version :
- kernel updated to version 2043 with support for FAT32 file system.
To save backward compatibility with MS-DOS kernel remains 16-bit.