FreeDOS
From WE Computers Museum
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| FreeDOS | |
| Developer | Jim Hall, FreeDOS team |
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| Publisher | https://www.freedos.org/ |
| Platforms | x86 |
| Released | September 16, 1994 - present |
| Added to Museum |
1.3 CD: July 16, 2022 |
FreeDOS, formerly known as PD-DOS and Free-DOS, is a free DOS operating system for computers that run on x86 architecture.
Jim Hall releases a manifesto for a free version of DOS
In June 1994, following the release of version 6.22 of MS-DOS, Microsoft announced that it discontinued the development of the aforementioned operating system.
As a result, on June 29, 1994, Jim Hall posted a manifesto on the comp.os.msdos.apps newsgroup that outlined his intention to create PD-DOS, a public domain version of DOS.
On July 16 1994, the name of the project in the manifesto was renamed Free-DOS as the source code for the OS was to be licensed under the GNU General Public License, rather than as public domain.
FreeDOS version history
- Free-DOS Alpha 1 (September 16, 1994)
- Free-DOS Alpha 2 (December 1994)
- Free-DOS Alpha 3 (January 1995)
- Free-DOS Alpha 4 (June 1995)
- FreeDOS Alpha 5 (August 10, 1996)
- FreeDOS Alpha 6 (November 1997)
- FreeDOS Beta 1 (April 24, 1998)
- FreeDOS Beta 2 (October 28, 1998)
- FreeDOS Beta 3 (April 22, 1999)
- FreeDOS Beta 4 (December 29, 1999)
- FreeDOS Beta 5 (August 11, 2000)
- FreeDOS Beta 6 (March 30, 2001)
- FreeDOS Beta 7 (September 8, 2001)
- FreeDOS Beta 8 (April 7, 2002)
- FreeDOS Beta 8 H1 (September 15, 2002)
- FreeDOS Beta 9 RC1 (July 19, 2003)
- FreeDOS Beta 9 RC2 (September 1, 2003)
- FreeDOS Beta 9 RC3 (September 8, 2003)
- FreeDOS Beta 9 RC4 (February 5, 2004)
- FreeDOS Beta 9 RC5 (April 20, 2004)
- FreeDOS Beta 9 (September 28, 2004)
- FreeDOS Beta 9 SR1 (November 30, 2004)
- FreeDOS Beta 9 SR2 (November 30, 2005)
- FreeDOS 1.0 (September 3, 2006)
- FreeDOS 1.1 (January 2, 2012)
- FreeDOS 1.2 RC1 (October 31, 2016)
- FreeDOS 1.2 RC2 (November 24, 2016)
- FreeDOS 1.2 (December 25, 2016)
- FreeDOS 1.3 RC1 (February 3, 2019)
- FreeDOS 1.3 RC2 (December 9, 2019)
- FreeDOS 1.3 RC3 (May 31, 2020)
- FreeDOS 1.3 RC4 (April 30, 2021)
- FreeDOS 1.3 RC5 (December 8, 2021)
- FreeDOS 1.3 (February 20, 2022)
