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Sep 2006
- FreeDOS is on TV, featuring FreeDOS developers Eric Auer and Bernd Blaauw! A background article to the TV report is also available at ZDF.
- St Paul Pioneer Press runs an interview about FreeDOS "1.0" (19 Sep 2006)
- NewsForge runs an interview about FreeDOS "1.0" (18 Sep 2006)
- heise online (2)
writes about the FreeDOS "1.0" distribution. Similar stories on:
OS News (2),
Slashdot,
Techworld,
TG Daily,
Linux Devices,
Information Week,
ZDNet UK,
ZDNet Asia,
ZDNet US,
CNet,
LinuxWorld,
Geek.com,
Builder AU,
Barrapunto (2),
The Inquirer ES,
Noticias 3D,
VivaLinux,
Linux Para Todos,
hispaMP3,
Linuzeros,
InfoWorld,
and elsewhere.
- FreeDOS officially releases the version 1.0 distribution (3 Sep 2006)
Aug 2006
- CK Raju tells us that "A large number of hardware vendors of Desktop PC in India are already shipping machines configured with FreeDOS. Advertisements appear almost on a daily basis in major newspapers."
Jul 2006
- Inquirer article about FreeDOS "1.0" release coming soon.
- NewsForge article about FreeDOS "1.0" and beyond.
Also mentioned on slashdot.
- Standard article about the upcoming FreeDOS "1.0" release. Approximate English translation:
DOS lives - FreeDOS will be released at the end of July.
The free operating system is almost fully compatible with MS-DOS (?) - created in response to the attitude(?) of MS-DOS.
The FreeDOS Project intends to release at the end of July version 1.0 of the free operating system. The developers communicated this on Saturday. Before that, a test version will be published on 15 July.
Almost fully compatible with MS-DOS.
FreeDOS is open source software and is almost fully compatible with MS-DOS. The project started in 1994 - after Microsoft announced MS-DOS was going to be retired.
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