Very cool. Thanks for the continued development!

- Alex

Just found out this, its great! Lets play a bit! Thanks

MiNiDOS is a live, installable and minimalistic MS-DOS 6.22 based distribution for which development is ongoing from beta #55 (Release 0.01) towards Release 0.2.

Today we are at beta #93:

After 38 beta builds since february, file count has increased from
aproximately 120 to 160, while at the same time free space has gone up from
about 10 KB to 20 KB. This means that the functionality has grown but the
"excess fat" has been successfully trimmed down.
We are still within the single 1.44 MB floppy domain!

I managed to fine-tune startup configurations, with more available
conventional memory when needed (is there a case when you don't? 🤣).

There is now a custom made SETUP program that resembles the well known MS-DOS
one, but unlike its relative, it occupies less than 10 KB on disk. Complete HDD
installation takes about a minute on a decade old PC, and about 10 minutes on
an 8088 4.7 Mhz XT PC.

BTW, live booting is marginably faster. Each and every second removed counts
in this regard, so it is worth mentioning.

Still pending:
- Thorough testing (initial basic testing already started). Corner cases missing.
- Finish documentation (70% done).
- Final testing and bug hunting.
- Find some clever coder that can pack the 125,495 bytes EMM386.EXE version 4.95 (WIN98)
- Something else which I am sure I am forgetting.

Why not use FreeDOS as a base instead, to avoid copyright issues?

Because MS-DOS is more compatible, especially on older hardware. That's why he states he uses MS-DOS as the base.

@MiNiDOS
Very good work, keep it up!

How is LFN supported, is the driver at the kernel level or in command.com?

Brilliant work, looking forward to the next release!