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.
Looking for the FreeDOS 1.1 distribution? You can help make this happen!
Latest Updates
DOS USB drivers (UHCI protocol)
2009-07-02 22:46 - The FreeDOS Project
Bret Johnson has published a set of USB drivers for DOS (currently only for those using the UHCI protocol), that can be downloaded here: http://bretjohnson.us/ Your feedback on these drivers with FreeDOS is welcome at the mailing lists: http://www.freedos.org/freedos/lists/
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OpenWatcom 1.8 basic distribution
2009-07-02 18:21 - The FreeDOS Project
Rugxulo has packed for us a very basic distribution of OpenWatcom 1.8 with just the basic stuff, on a 14MB package (6MB with 7zip). You can get it from ibiblio: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/devel/c/openwatcom/1.8/
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FreeDOS on twitter
2009-07-02 15:41 - The FreeDOS Project
Pat writes to tell us that FreeDOS is now on twitter at http://twitter.com/FreeDOS_Project : "Used mainly for news and events in the project.". Enjoy and stay tunned!
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FreeDOS is 15 years old
2009-06-26 05:50 - The FreeDOS Project
On Sunday, June 28 2009, the FreeDOS Project will turn 15 years old. For a little trip down memory lane: In 1994, I was a physics student at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Most of my work up to that time had been done using DOS. But then Microsoft announced they were moving off DOS in the next release of Windows (which would be Windows 95.) So I started an effort to recreate DOS. PD-DOS was announced to the world on June 28 1994. The idea seemed immediately popular, and we grew quickly. By July 16 1994, we changed our name to "Free-DOS", and "FreeDOS" in 1996 when Pat Villani published his book about the kernel. Today, FreeDOS is used by people all around the world. You can find FreeDOS in many different places: emulators, playing old DOS games, business, ... even bundled with laptops and netbooks: http://technologizer.com/2009/06/23/hps-mini-5101-netbook-deluxe-with-all-the-trimmings/
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UIDE + RDISK + XMGR (June 23)
2009-06-24 21:13 - The FreeDOS Project
Jack Ellis has been working hard, updating yet again his famous drivers. Latest changes: * RDISK now a .COM file, loadable by CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC * RDISK /: switch added to use any free drive letter, when loaded thru AUTOEXEC or later * RDISKON program added (to reenable if formatted) * Corrected UIDE CD/DVD handling of VDS errors * XMGR and UIDEJR unchanged (re-dated only) http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/driver.html
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Defrag 1.32
2009-06-21 02:25 - The FreeDOS Project
Imre Leber has released a new version of Defrag 1.32. You can download it from ibiblio ( http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/defrag/dfrag132.zip ), or from his page ( http://users.telenet.be/imre/FreeDOS/dfrag132.zip ).
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CHKDSK 0.92
2009-06-21 02:24 - The FreeDOS Project
Imre Leber has released a new version of CHKDSK 0.92. You can download it from ibiblio ( http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/chkdsk/ckdsk092.zip ) or from his page ( http://users.telenet.be/imre/FreeDOS/ckdsk092.zip ).
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GNU sed 4.2
2009-06-16 16:45 - The FreeDOS Project
Juan Manuel Guerrero, hot on the heels of his port of GNU ed 1.3, has released GNU sed 4.2 ("the Stream EDitor"), which contains quite a few changes. Grab it and full sources at your favorite DJGPP mirror (e.g. http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pc/dos/djgpp/) or from DJ's main FTP at ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/sed42s.zip , ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/sed42b.zip .
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FASM 1.68
2009-06-16 16:39 - The FreeDOS Project
Tomasz Grysztar has released FASM 1.68 "stable", which basically mirrors the long-developed 1.67.x line but now with much improved documentation. Download binaries and sources at http://flatassembler.net .
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JWasm 1.95
2009-06-16 16:32 - The FreeDOS Project
Japheth updated JWasm again recently, now at 1.95, fixing many bugs and adding JWASMR (real mode) in addition to JWASMD (32-bit pmode). You can download it and sources at either http://www.japheth.de/JWasm.html or also report bugs at https://sourceforge.net/projects/jwasm .
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