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It wasn't deleted. Deletion in MediaWiki removes edit history from view, and the full edit history is still visible at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedows_O

by JdeBP 11y ago

It wasn't deleted. Deletion in MediaWiki removes edit history from view, and the full edit history is still visible at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedows_OS?action=history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedows_OS?action=history . I wasn't really asking how hard it was. I know all about that. I'm one of the world's principal experts in what's involved in cloning OS/2 from the ground up. I was asking where they had got to, because I stopped keeping tabs some years ago and am wondering if I had missed anything in the period since. The OSFree roadmap doesn't appear to match its news announcements, so I doubt that it's accurate and up to date. (These things have a way of not being.)

orionblastar 11y ago
Last time I tried OSFree they didn't have an ISO available just the source code. It has been a while as they have ISOs now: http://www.osfree.org/doku/en:download http://www.osfree.org/doku/en:download I just downloaded the latest ISO and set up a VirtualBox virtual machine for it. It boots into a command prompt but there is no fdisk.exe or other programs to format a hard drive and install it on a hard drive that I can see. It seems as if it runs limited DOS and OS/2 CLI programs and hasn't made the GUI available yet. I can see in command line mode there is no mouse support yet. The L4 Kernel has an OS/2 personality and it looks like there is a doscalls.dll file to handle the DOS API calls. There are os2app os2fs and os2srv directories but they are empty. I assume they are for OS/2 apps, file system support, and server (LAN Manager, SMB) that haven't been added yet. It has a long way to go but back when I last checked a few years ago they didn't even have an ISO yet. The ISO boots and goes into a command line mode and that is about all it does. Yeah they aren't keeping up with the road map, the same thing happens with ReactOS and others.

by JdeBP 11y ago

orionblastar 11y ago

Last time I tried OSFree they didn't have an ISO available just the source code. It has been a while as they have ISOs now: http://www.osfree.org/doku/en:download http://www.osfree.org/doku/en:download I just downloaded the latest ISO and set up a VirtualBox virtual machine for it. It boots into a command prompt but there is no fdisk.exe or other programs to format a hard drive and install it on a hard drive that I can see. It seems as if it runs limited DOS and OS/2 CLI programs and hasn't made the GUI available yet. I can see in command line mode there is no mouse support yet. The L4 Kernel has an OS/2 personality and it looks like there is a doscalls.dll file to handle the DOS API calls. There are os2app os2fs and os2srv directories but they are empty. I assume they are for OS/2 apps, file system support, and server (LAN Manager, SMB) that haven't been added yet. It has a long way to go but back when I last checked a few years ago they didn't even have an ISO yet. The ISO boots and goes into a command line mode and that is about all it does. Yeah they aren't keeping up with the road map, the same thing happens with ReactOS and others.