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 ...

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 ...

Back when I had to prep outgoing computers on their way to surplus, I would DBAN their hard drives and install FreeDOS so the surplus office could prove the PC could boot. I love FreeDOS and think ...

Even in 2025 there are still many applications for a simple Disk Operating System (DOS), whether this includes running legacy software (including MS-DOS games & Windows 3.x), or (embedded) systems ...

FreeDOS is an open source operating system that allows you to run MS-DOS applications even though Microsoft stopped developing and supporting MS-DOS more than two decades ago. While FreeDOS has been ...

Some 17 years after its first release in 1994, and more than five years since 1.0, FreeDOS 1.1 -- the definitive, open source version of MS-DOS -- is now available to download. The history of FreeDOS ...

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 FreeDOS Project has just reached its 23rd birthday! This is a major milestone for any free software or open-source software project. If you don't know about FreeDOS, it's a small project that ...

Prompt Forever: FreeDOS is a free operating system designed to be a competent replacement for MS-DOS and other prompt-based operating systems. The project still has to achieve perfect compatibility ...