Twenty years ago this week, Jim Hall of St. Paul announced an ambitious effort to create a no-cost and free-to-modify version of MS-DOS, the commercial Microsoft operating system that largely launched ...

We’re used to updating Windows, macOS, and Linux systems at least once a month (and usually more), but people with ancient DOS-based PCs still get to join in the fun every once in a while. Over the ...

This past June 29 marked the 30th anniversary of FreeDOS, the text-based operating system by American developer Jim Hall that carries on the tradition of the classic and iconic MS-DOS. In fact, ...

The development of FreeDOS marches onwards with the release of version 1.4 of this command-line driven operating system. Influenced, of course, by Microsoft’s MS-DOS (which hasn’t been updated since ...

With its recent switch to a different kernel, SvarDOS moves from being a distro of FreeDOS to greater independence.… Until ...

Earlier this month, I spent a day working in the throwback world of DOS. More specifically, it was FreeDOS version 1.1, the open source version of the long-defunct Microsoft MS-DOS operating system.

When I was a student, I was a diehard Commodore Amiga user, having upgraded to an A500+ from my Sinclair Spectrum. The Amiga could do it all, it became my programming environment for electronic ...

It’s been decades since Microsoft stopped developing MS-DOS, but there are thousands of old DOS applications that aren’t designed to run on newer operating systems like Windows 10. Enter FreeDOS, a ...

On June 29, 2019, the FreeDOS Project turns 25 years old. That's a major milestone for any open-source software project! In honor of this anniversary, Jim Hall shares this look at how FreeDOS got ...