What's new in FreeDOS 1.1
Jan 13, 2012
- New:
- FreeDOS kernel 2040 (Bart Oldeman, Jeremy Davis and others. Should fix fat32 file corruption).
- mtcp (Michael Brutman), a suite of high-performance TCP/IP applications for any x86 computer.
- an initial attempt at USB controller support (Bret Johnson). So far only UHCI (Intel/Via USB1.1 12Mb/s & 1.5Mb/s), thus no OHCI (Nvidia etc, 12Mbit/s & 1.5Mbit/s, EHCI (USB 2.0 , 480Mbit/s) and xHCI (USB 3.0 , 5000 Mbit/s)
- generic PCI IDE cache/cdrom driver (Jack R. Ellis) including PIO/UDMA modes for (P)ATA/SATA harddisks and CD.
- new installation menu when starting from CD, intended to reduce amount of menus you have to respond to.
- universal BIOS backup program, see http://www.flashrom.org .
- updated memory drivers (HMA&XMS, UMB&EMS) with many thanks to Japheth, Jack, Michael Devore and Tom Ehlert
- 4DOS 8.00 command interpreter has been added, many thanks to Luchezar Georgiev for updating JPSOFT's code
- installation scripts have been streamlined. Much to do still though.
- very limited USB flash disk support (often showing up as C: )
- many new versions of many programs, including DEVLOAD and DEBUG. Features and fixes as usual.
- Removed:
- Unstable kernel 2039. Replaced by 2040. No NLS (NLSFUNC/CHCP) support yet, expected in 2041
- UDMA/GCDROM/QCDROM etc. Replaced by UIDE. For USB bootCD, using ELTORITO from Syslinux 4.05