THE FREEDOS 1.0 Final DISTRIBUTION

RELEASE NOTES

Bernd Blaauw <bblnews@hotmail.com>
Blair Campbell <blairdude@gmail.com>
31 July 2006

This document based on prior Release Notes
written by Jim Hall and Jeremy Davis

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Welcome to the 1.0 Final distribution!

Please visit the FreeDOS web site ( http://www.freedos.org ) for more
information on FreeDOS, including updates.

Please read and understand the licensing information for all programs
you install and use.

For a list of programs available in this distribution see the file
programs.txt, which includes information such as program name, license
(copying information, note some programs may be available only for
non-commercial use), and primary location to obtain program.


In the meantime, some notes and things you need to watch out for:

* The Fat32 enabled kernel has gone out of the experimental phase
  for quite some time. It's now stable.
  However, not all FreeDOS programs can handle FAT32 properly yet.

* This distribution is provided only as an ISO image.  Though
  disk images may be provided in a form suitable for 3.5inch
  1.44MB floppies and others to allow booting from floppy and
  using the CD-ROM.

* About bootdisk:
  The contents of the first disk is small enough to fit on diskettes
  ranging from 360KB to 2.88MB (most common: 1.44KB).
  
* About bootdisk creation:
  If an empty diskette is inserted, we create a standard FreeDOS diskette.

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  FreeDOS is a trademark of Jim Hall. 
  It was claimed as a trademark to prevent its possible abuse or misuse.
  The name FreeDOS may be used by the FreeDOS community to refer to 
  programs that are part of the FreeDOS operating system, or to associate
  their programs with FreeDOS.
