FreeDOS Documentation now located in the FreeDOS Wiki. We've been moving the content from the FD-DOC site into the FreeDOS Wiki. Finally, the HOWTOs and Mini-HOWTOs, and the Spec and Manifesto, have been migrated into the new Wiki. You can help maintain the Wiki! Anyone with a user account on SourceForge can help to edit content on the FreeDOS Wiki. Join the community and help us keep our documentation up-to-date.
We have moved our bug tracking to the SourceForge Bug Tracker. A read-only archive of the old FreeDOS Bugzilla is now available for those who want to match up old bugs. Note that all mailto: links have been disabled, to prevent spammers from harvesting email addresses. There's a simple "report" index that has links to all the bugs in the archive, including a short description of each bug, but there's no search function.
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.
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Latest Updates
JWasm 2.00
2009-10-23 20:33 - The FreeDOS Project
On Oct. 12, Japheth released JWasm 2.00 (heavily modified OpenWatcom assembler) to the world (DOS16, DOS32, Win32, Linux). This version added 64-bit support (and various bugfixes), read full changes here: http://www.japheth.de/JWasm/History.txt and download binaries and sources here: http://www.japheth.de/JWasm.html . Thanks, Japheth!
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Are you a web developer?
2009-10-20 22:46 - The FreeDOS Project
If you have a talent for web site design, or know someone who does, this is for you: The FreeDOS web site has always been run by volunteers. But we're programmers, not web designers. Help us update the FreeDOS web site design! Web designers can submit their design idea via email. We'll post the top finalists in about a month, and provide a way for people to vote for their favorite new web design. Details are at Jim Hall's blog: http://www.freedos.org/jhall/ or more directly at http://sourceforge.net/userapps/wordpress/jhall1/2009/10/20/are-you-a-web-developer/
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Jack's drivers (UIDE, XMGR): updated!
2009-10-09 21:30 - The FreeDOS Project
On. Oct. 19, Jack Ellis again updated his UIDE and XMGR drivers. Recent changes: "UIDE /R deleted, HMA now optional, XMGR /K deleted, UIDEJR VDS lock fix ". Grab your copy at http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/driver.html . Thanks again, Jack!
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Geocities closing (Oct. 26)
2009-10-09 21:26 - The FreeDOS Project
Yahoo! has decided to close their free Geocities accounts later this month (Oct. 26). Current users should migrate somewhere else (e.g. Tripod) as soon as possible! As you probably know, many DOS fans use or have used Geocities, so many files will potentially be lost. Grab what you can! Also, you definitely want to read the FAQ for the closing details here: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/close/ . EDIT: Please hurry!!
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Bret's USB/UCHI (Sep. 23)
2009-10-09 21:15 - The FreeDOS Project
On Sep. 23, Bret Johnson again updated his open source USB/UCHI drivers (mouse, printer, pendrive) for DOS. Read the forums (i.e. post bug reports) at http://bretjohnson.us/forum/ or download at http://www.bretjohnson.us/ . Thanks, Bret!
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Syslinux 3.83
2009-10-09 21:10 - The FreeDOS Project
hpa has released Syslinux 3.83 (bugfixes, minor features) on Oct. 5. Syslinux, Memdisk, etc. are used in the official FreeDOS 1.0 .ISOs for booting. Visit the wiki at http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/The_Syslinux_Project or Read the changes at http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/Changelog#Changes_in_3.83 or just download it at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/ .
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GNU Bash 2.04 r3 / 2.05b r3
2009-10-01 04:29 - The FreeDOS Project
Thanks to Andris Pavenis, a nasty shell function bug crash (exposed by GNU Autoconf 2.64) was squashed in both DJGPP ports of GNU Bash. Stable 2.03p2 users can grab /current/v2gnu/bsh204[bs]r3.zip while beta 2.04 users can get /beta/v2gnu/bsh205b[bs]r3.zip from their favorite DJGPP mirror. See http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/getting.html .
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BIEW 6.0.0
2009-09-25 20:25 - The FreeDOS Project
Nichols_K has released BIEW 6.0.0 on Sep. 22 2009. BIEW (Binary vIEW) is a fully 64-bit-aware portable text viewer, hex editor, syntax-highlighted disassembler, various .EXE viewers, etc. in the style of HIEW or QVIEW. Grab it at http://sourceforge.net/projects/biew/ (or older 16-bit version from ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/utilprog/biew562.arj and http://www.ua.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/distfiles/biew562.tar.bz2 ).
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4tH 3.5d rel. 3 (stable)
2009-09-25 19:57 - The FreeDOS Project
Hans Bezemer has released the latest 4tH 3.5d rel. 3 on Sep. 6, 2009. 4tH is his portable Forth written in ANSI C. It is embeddable and features 16-bit and 32-bit DOS .EXEs, portable bytecode, very extensive examples and documentation, and "cannot be crashed". Grab it at http://www.xs4all.nl/~thebeez/4tH/ and enjoy!
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Exuberant Ctags 5.8
2009-09-09 20:43 - The FreeDOS Project
Darren Hiebert has released Exuberant Ctags 5.8, now with "DosBatch" support! Supporting DOS editors include Mined, JED, VILE, VIM, Emacs, FTE, and SETEdit. It needs a few (very trivial) tweaks to compile with DJGPP (see below, "Read More"), but the Win32 build also works under Japheth's HX. Grab it at http://ctags.sf.net (and http://www.japheth.de/HX.html if needed).
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