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    <h1>SvarDOS - an open-source DOS distribution</h1>

    <p class="copyr">for PCs of the 1980-2000 era</p>

    <p>SvarDOS is an open-source project that is meant to integrate the best out of the currently available DOS tools, drivers and games. DOS development has been abandoned by commercial players a long time ago, mostly during early nineties. Nowadays it survives solely through the efforts of hobbyists and retro-enthusiasts, but this is a highly sparse and unorganized ecosystem. SvarDOS aims to collect available DOS software and make it easy to find and install applications using a network-enabled package manager (like apt-get, but for DOS and able to run on a 8086 PC).</p>

    <h2>Minimalist and 8086-compatible</h2>

    <p>Once installed, SvarDOS is a minimalistic DOS system that offers only a DOS kernel, a command interpreter and the most basic tools for system administration. It is then up to the user to install additional packages. Care is taken so SvarDOS remains 8086-compatible, at least in its most basic (core) configuration.</p>

    <h2>Open-source</h2>

    <p>SvarDOS is published under the terms of the MIT license. This applies only to SvarDOS-specific files, though - the auxilliary packages supplied with SvarDOS may be subject to different licenses (GPL, BSD, Public Domain, Freeware...).</p>

    <h2>Multilingual</h2>

    <p>The system can be set up in a wide selection of languages: English, German, French, Polish, Russian, Italian and more.</p>

    <h2>No "versions"</h2>

    <p>SvarDOS is a rolling release, meaning that it does not adhere to the concept of "versions". Once the system is installed, its packages can be kept up-to-date using the SvarDOS online update tools (pkg &amp; pkgnet).</p>

    <h2>Community and help</h2>

    <p>Need to get in touch? Wish to submit some packages, translate SvarDOS to your language, or otherwise contribute? Or maybe you'd like some information about SvarDOS? Come visit the <a href="?p=forum">SvarDOS community forum</a>. You may also wish to take a look at the project's <a href="https://github.com/SvarDOS/bugz/issues">bug tracker</a>.</p>

    <?php

      // the "default" build proposed on the main page is read from the

      // default_build.txt file, while "bleeding edge" is the latest entry

      // available in the download dir

      $lastver = trim(file_get_contents('default_build.txt'));

      $latestbuild = scandir('download/', SCANDIR_SORT_DESCENDING)[0];

    ?>

    <h2>Downloads</h2>

    <p>SvarDOS is available in a variety of installation images for different sizes of floppy disks. The CD image presented below contains only a virtual floppy to install the bare-bone SvarDOS system. If you'd like a CD image that contains lots of extra packages, you may want to look <a href="http://svardos.org/?p=repo">here</a>.</p>

    <div class="download">

    <div>

      <h3>Stable build (<?php echo $lastver; ?>)</h3>

      <ul>

      <?php

        $arr = array('cd' => 'CD-ROM ISO', 'floppy-1.44M' => '1.44M floppy disks', 'floppy-1.2M' => '1.2M floppy disks', 'floppy-720K' => '720K floppy disks', 'floppy-360K' => '360K floppy disks', 'usb' => 'bootable USB image');

        foreach ($arr as $l => $d) {

          echo "<li><a href=\"download/{$lastver}/svardos-{$lastver}-{$l}.zip\">{$d}</a></li>\n";

        }

      ?>

      </ul>

    </div>

    <div> <!-- TODO: BNS should point to $lastver instead of $latestbuild once BNS support gets to stable -->

      <h3>BNS build (<?php echo $latestbuild; ?>)</h3>

      <ul>

      <?php

        echo "<li><a href=\"download/{$latestbuild}/svardos-{$latestbuild}-cd-bns.zip\">CD-ROM ISO image</a></li>\n";

      ?>

      </ul>

      <p>A "talking" version for blind persons. Uses the PROVOX screen reader and requires a Braille 'n Speak synthesizer connected to the COM1 port. If running as a VM, the BNS can be <a href="https://emubns.sourceforge.net/">emulated</a>.</p>

    </div>

    <?php

      if ($latestbuild !== $lastver) {

        echo "    <div>\n";

        echo "      <h3>Bleeding edge</h3>\n";

        echo "      <ul><li><a href=\"?p=files&amp;dir={$latestbuild}\">build {$latestbuild}</a></li></ul>\n";

        echo "      <p>⚠ This build has not been thoroughly tested! Let us know how it works for you.</p>\n";

        echo "    </div>\n";

      }

    ?>

    </div>

    <p>The links above point to the latest builds of installation images. Archival builds can be found in the <a href="?p=files">files section</a>.</p>

    <h2>Development &#x1F527;</h2>

    <p>Wondering how SvarDOS is built? All the build-related files, scripts and sources of SvarDOS-specific tools are stored on the project's SVN server. To pull the sources using the standard subversion client use:<br><code>svn co svn://svn.svardos.org/svardos svardos</code></p>

    <p>If you only wish to take a quick peek, then we provide a read-only mirror of the SvarDOS subversion tree on github where you can easily <a href="https://github.com/SvarDOS/core">browse the development tree</a>.</p>

    <p>SvarDOS uses a fork of the Enhanced DR-DOS kernel, whose development is kept on the <a href="https://github.com/SvarDOS/edrdos">EDR github repository</a>.</p>