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%hSvarDOS origins (history from the point of view of its creator)
Mateusz Viste, the SvarDOS author, says:
Mateusz Viste says:
In the years 2005-2015, I used to perform packaging work for the FreeDOS
In the years 2005-2015 I used to perform packaging work for the FreeDOS
project. I wasn't pleased with the packaging tool that FreeDOS used back then
(FDPKG), so in 2012 I started working on a new package manager, with network
support, automatic updates, etc - I named it FDNPKG. Later I also devised a
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I still wasn't satisfied with how FreeDOS clings to its notion of "releases"
and that it cannot include some software because of licensing issues, so in
2016 I decided to create my own distribution, that I called Svarog386 (there
was also a Svarog86 project that I had created a couple of months earlier,
was also a Svarog86 project that I had created a couple months earlier,
dedicated to 8086 machines). Svarog386 naturally relied on the FreeDOS kernel
and used the FDNPKG package manager.
Then, in 2021, I started to be tired of having two separate distributions to
care about. Over time, FDNPKG also became a huge piece of protected mode code,
and although it was magnificent code, I was no longer happy with it: too many
features, too complex data processing, too high memory requirements... In a
Then, in 2021, I found it increasingly annoying to look after two separate
distributions. Over time, FDNPKG also became a huge piece of protected mode
code, and although it was magnificent code, I was no longer happy with it: too
many features, too much data processing, too much memory required... In a
word: too much fluff. I longed for something simpler, that would do perhaps
less, but with more transparency towards the user - and something that would
work in real mode with not much RAM, so it could be useful even on ancient
8086 machines.
work in real mode with not much RAM, so it could run even on ancient 8086
machines.
The result of these thoughts was SvarDOS: a distribution that replaced both
Svarog86 and Svarog386, and that came with its own package manager - a much