Fdisk 1.4

https://github.com/FDOS/fdisk/releases/tag/v1.4.0

RC2 is out

https://www.freedos.org/download/

2025-01-22 15:40:20 7zip (Shidel): Initial commit
2025-01-22 11:33:55 project_FDI [candidate] (Shidel): 7zip replacing 7zDec package
2025-01-22 10:51:55 7zip (Shidel): package cleanup
2025-01-22 10:48:40 7zip (Shidel): initial project commit to FreeDOS GitLab Archive
2025-01-20 19:40:22 fdisk (Bernd Boeckmann): version 1.4.3
2025-01-15 21:50:39 fdisk (Bernd Boeckmann): re-trigger v1.4.0 package generation
2025-01-15 21:18:39 fdisk (Bernd Boeckmann): FDISK version 1.4.0
2025-01-15 20:53:27 htmlhelp (Bernd Boeckmann): update english help
2025-01-14 05:56:44 rcal (Shidel): minor restructure for consistency with other utilities
2025-01-13 17:37:17 ambread (Shidel): updated to v20250110
2025-01-13 17:14:45 jemm (Shidel): updated to v5.85

2025-03-01 FreeDOS 1.4 Release Candidate 3 is now available! Please help us test the new version. The new release candidate has a ton of new changes and fixes since FreeDOS 1.3. These updates should address many annoying bugs that folks have reported since version 1.3. Please help test the new FreeDOS 1.4 release candidate by downloading it and reporting bugs.

This might be a silly question, but are there plans for if and when bios compatibility is deprecated?
Something like a uefi loader and a seabioslike payload?

myne wrote on 2025-04-02, 03:09:

This might be a silly question, but are there plans for if and when bios compatibility is deprecated?
Something like a uefi loader and a seabioslike payload?

That would be something like a universal CSM loaded from disk instead of built into ROM. I wonder how feasible it is, or if CSMs use things too deep like System Management mode to make a universal one.

I wonder if you could use Grub to load DOS on a UEFI-only system.

Grub can load dos no problems, but if there are no standard bios services it won't work.
You might as well be trying to boot it on arm.

Can it run Windows 3.1x in enhanced mode?
Can it run in a v86 DOS box inside Windows?
Is there a roadmap?

Meh, wake me up when the Kernel is on version 2.45. That one has the milestones that hopefully will fix the bugs with some games

1.4 is official

https://www.freedos.org/download/announce.html

Package updates:
As you might expect, many programs in the FreeDOS distribution saw updates. Some of the more recent changes include:

• FreeCOM is the FreeDOS command.com shell. Version 0.86 has a bunch of new fixes, compatibility improvements, and translations, thanks to Jeremy, TK Chia, Emir, Andrew, Yu-Shih, Bernd, Jiří, and others.
• Xcopy is a standard DOS command that copies a directory tree. Version 1.8b has a reworked recursive copy to not use as much stack space, and uses increased stack size when built on Open Watcom.
• Move moves a file or directory from one place to another. Version 3.4 has an update to limit stack usage reducing the chance of stack overflow on recursive moves.
• Fdisk is the program to manage fixed disks (hard disks). Version 1.4.3 collects several important changes since FreeDOS 1.3, including fixing critical errors that could cause data issues when working with many partitions.
• mTCP is a set of TCP/IP applications for personal computers running DOS. The version in FreeDOS 1.4 has many changes that improve reliability.
• FDHelp is the content of the main Help system. Version 1.1.0 has been rewritten from scratch by Willi, and includes translations to other languages thanks to several translators.

A few updates didn't make it into the FreeDOS 1.4 distribution. For example, a few programs released updates in the days before the final FreeDOS 1.4 release, like the Blocek text editor (version 1.76) and that was too late to include them. These programs will get included in upcoming monthly test releases.

Also, the FreeDOS kernel is still the same version from FreeDOS 1.3 because the new kernel is not ready yet. Understandably, an operating system kernel is a critical component and will require a lot of testing before we can include it in the next FreeDOS distribution. When the new kernel is available, we'll roll this into the monthly test releases.

For now, FreeDOS 1.4 can't run Windows for Workgroups in enhanced mode, but can run Windows 3.1 in standard mode.

Make "kernel" and "freecom" perfect.... And then use resources to make all great again. It is still kinda beta thing. I know that ReactOS will alway be beta. It need so much work and is a moving target. But a OS that feature peaked 30 years ago. That has many better "not original" and even better "open source" versions... (E)DR-Dos.