IT House February 24 -- In the 1980s and early 1990s, Microsoft's DOS operating system (MS-DOS) dominated the early days of IBM PC-compatible systems. However, with the release of Windows, Microsoft stopped updating MS-DOS decades ago, and the open source FreeDOS project has been circulating until now.
Led by founder Jim Hall, the FreeDOS project integrates third-party software based on an open source kernel and command prompt. Previous update version 1.2 was released in December 2016. After 6 years, the FreeDOS 1.3 version is finally here.
Released last Sunday, FreeDOS 1.3 updates the FreeCOM command line, FAT32 partition support for older 8086 PCs, simpler network configuration, new programs and games, installer improvements, and more. In addition, the floppy version uses a new compression technology, and the capacity is reduced to half of the previous one.
IT Home understands that users can install FreeDOS 1.3 on the local and virtual machines, and the official website has multiple Zip packages to choose from, the minimum is only 15.6MB, and the full package size is 375MB.