Welcome to FreeDOS
FreeDOS is a free DOS-compatible operating system for IBM-PC compatible systems. FreeDOS is made of up many different, separate programs that act as "packages" to the overall FreeDOS Project.
We welcome new users to FreeDOS. You can contribute to the FreeDOS Project by downloading our latest release and telling us what you think. We have a bug tracking system that helps you report problems and submit requests, and otherwise tell us how to improve FreeDOS. By participating in the development and debugging process, you help everyone.
Latest Updates
FreePascal 2.6.0
2012-01-12 10:37
marcov announces that FreePascal 2.6.0 has been released. Changes are mostly better Delphi compatibility with some ISO 7185 things (non-local goto, nested procedure variables). See http://wiki.freepascal.org/FPC_New_Features_2.6.0 and http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.6.0 and download at https://sourceforge.net/projects/freepascal/files/ . WriteLn('Enjoy!');
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FreeDOS 1.1 is released!
2012-01-02 12:05
We'd like to announce the release of the FreeDOS 1.1 distribution! Bernd Blaauw has been hard at work, updating our FreeDOS distribution to include the latest packages. Bernd writes: "In its current form this new distribution is best suited as a CD-ROM disk to install FreeDOS from onto harddisk. Sources are included. It might be considered as replacement for the current 'base-only' 1.0 distributions as created by Blair and Jeremy, however it's less functional as it's missing the Live Environment part (\FDOS directory on CD)." Get it at http://www.freedos.org/freedos/files/ - or more directly, from http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.1/ (Mirror sites should be available in a few days.)
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A FreeDOS timeline
2011-12-31 1:33
You may be familiar with Éric Lévénez and his excellent Unix history timeline, in printable PDF format. Éric also maintains a parallel history of Windows and DOS - which now includes FreeDOS. Check it out: http://levenez.com/windows/
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Lua 5.2.0 (DJGPP, 386+)
2011-12-22 8:41
On Dec. 22, Juan Manuel Guerrero released his port of Lua 5.2.0 for DJGPP (386+). Unlike stock Lua releases, rebuilding this one requires DJGPP libc post-2.04 (DXE3 for .so) from CVS and GNU readline. "Lua is a powerful, light-weight programming language designed for extending applications. Lua is also frequently used as a general-purpose, stand-alone language. Lua is free software [MIT]." Grab sources and binaries in /beta/v2tk/ (lua520[bds].zip) on any DJGPP mirror: http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/getting.html or mirrored at http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/devel/lua/
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DOSLFN 0.41
2011-12-16 10:33
Jason Hood just released DOSLFN 0.41, the TSR that provides Win9x LFNs in pure DOS. Changes: - invalidate the sector after getting a short name (fixes DIR after COPY), - fixed creating a short name (courtesy of Japheth), - prevent upcasing DBCS trail bytes, * stop using the FASTOPEN cache (but may be recompiled with), * reduced .com size (by better definition of the standard calls), + use XMS to store DBCS code pages, + added cp860uni.tbl (Portuguese). Download binaries and sources at http://adoxa.110mb.com/doslfn/ or mirrored at http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system/doslfn/ .
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Dillo web browser, beta2 released
2011-11-26 9:35
Georg Potthast reports an update to the Dillo web browser for DOS: "Benjamin Johnson added file downloads and loading web pages from disk to Dillo. I added support for extended characters using UTF8 fonts. To make these major enhancements available on my website I uploaded a new beta version." You can get the new DILLODOS_beta2 at http://code.google.com/p/nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos/downloads/list
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FreeDOS booting in Javascript
2011-11-24 8:10
Kevin O'Dwyer writes with this interesting development: "I saw the link on the FreeDOS home page to JPC booting FreeDOS. I ported JPC to JavaScript some time ago. Thought I would send a link to FreeDOS running in JavaScript." Runs best in Chrome browser. See it at http://pc-emulator.appspot.com/ , or visit the project on SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/jspcemulator/
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Open house in ##freedos on freenode
2011-11-24 7:42
Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson writes: "We will be having an open house on the 25th November 2011 on the ##freedos channel on freenode. The house will be open from 12:00 to 24:00 UTC and we hope you will be able to show up." To join: channel ##freedos on irc.freenode.net
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Dillo, a web browser for DOS
2011-11-18 11:29
Georg Potthast writes with this very interesting news: "The Dillo web browser has been ported to DOS now. I recently ported the FLTK toolkit to DOS. Based on that I could port the Dillo GUI to DOS. Benjamin Johnson, who ported Dillo to Windows joined me and so this beta is available now based on Dillo for Windows. There is a three-page User Guide in the ZIP archive which will answer many questions that may arise." You can see a screenshot here: http://code.google.com/p/nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos/wiki/Dillo_Web_Browser_Screenshot - Downloads are available at: http://code.google.com/p/nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos/downloads/list
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Mined 2011.19
2011-11-18 7:37
Thomas Wolff has released Mined 2011.19, the best console Unicode text editor in the world. Changes: * interactive file chooser, * backup files, * file locking, * recovery files, * mouse between menus. Grab .EXE (DJGPP, 386+) and sources at http://towo.net/mined/ or mirrored at http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/edit/mined/ .
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