From: jls11 AT po DOT CWRU DOT Edu (John L. Spetz) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: DJGPP: the future is... ? Date: 31 Mar 1999 03:29:01 GMT Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA) Lines: 28 Message-ID: <7ds4pt$364$1@alexander.INS.CWRU.Edu> References: <199903270502 DOT AAA32183 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> <36fc61a2 DOT 0 AT newnews DOT widomaker DOT com> <3 DOT 0 DOT 1 DOT 16 DOT 19990329110125 DOT 1dd78804 AT shadow DOT net> NNTP-Posting-Host: christopher.ins.cwru.edu To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com In a previous article, bpmurray*STUFFER*@socrates.ucsf.edu (Bernard P. Murray, PhD) says: >> SET: Why would OpenDOS not comply? I've had it on my old 386 for a long time, >> and it loods good to me. I never got the sources, but I thought they were >> available >> for free. Has something happened regarding Caldera and OpenDOS? > >Yes. They opened the sources very briefly and these were downloaded >*many* times. Caldera then did a quick U-turn (I think because they >also realised that DOS was suitable for commercial use in embedded >systems). They now "give it away" in binary form only for non-commercial >use only. Thankfully they have reverted to calling it "DR DOS" >as it is no longer "Open". > I've been using DR DOS since v5 (I currently run Novell DOS 7) >and Caldera have not really done anything to it since acquiring it. >Novell almost ruined it with the initial v7 release (buggy!) but >the later updates (last was U15) cleaned it up nicely. It would seem DR-DOS is still under development. Actually DJ runs a mailing list for discussion about it. I understand Caldera has closed a development facility in England and brought development to the US, but beta versions are still being produced. As I understand it they have worked quite a bit on support for LFNs via a TSR and making the memory manager more robust. I have a copy of DR-DOS bundled with OpenLinux 1.3 for use with DosEmu.