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| <h1>SvarDOS - an open-source DOS distribution</h1> |
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| <p style="text-align: center; font-size: 1.5em; margin: 1.5em auto;">WORK IN PROGRESS</p> |
| <p style="font-size: 1.2em;">This project is in a work-in-progress phase, nothing works yet. Please come back later!</p> |
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| <div style="margin: 2em auto; width: 21em; border: 1px #777 solid; background-color: #fff; padding: 0.1em 0.5em; color: #a00; font-size: 1.1em;">This project is very much "work-in-progress", not everything works yet!</div> |
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| <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 very 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, package it and make it easy to find and install applications using a network-enabled package manager.</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 very 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, package it 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 even on a 8086 PC).</p> |
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| <h2>SvarDOS is minimalist and 8086-compatibe</h2> |
| <h2>Minimalist and 8086-compatibe</h2> |
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| <p>Once installed, SvarDOS is a minimalistic DOS system that offers only the most basic tools for system administration. It is 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> |
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| <h2>SvarDOS is open-source</h2> |
| <h2>Open-source</h2> |
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| <p>SvarDOS files are published under the terms of the MIT license. This applies only to SvarDOS-specific files, though - the packages may be subject to different licenses (GPL, BSD, Public Domain, Freeware...).</p> |
| <p>SvarDOS files are published under the terms of the MIT license. This applies only to SvarDOS-specific files, though - the packages supplied with SvarDOS may be subject to different licenses (GPL, BSD, Public Domain, Freeware...).</p> |
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| <h2>SvarDOS has no "versions"</h2> |
| <h2>No "versions"</h2> |
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| <p>SvarDOS is a "rolling" release, meaning that it doesn't follow the concept of "versions". Once installed, SvarDOS can be kept up-to-date trough its online update tool.</p> |
| <p>SvarDOS is a "rolling" release, meaning that it doesn't follow the concept of "versions". Once the system is installed, its packages can be kept up-to-date using the SvarDOS online update tools (pkgnet & pkginst).</p> |
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| <h2>The community</h2> |
| <h2>Community and help</h2> |
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| <p>Need to get in touch? Wish to contribute some packages, translate SvarDOS to your language, or otherwise contribute? Or maybe you'd like some information about SvarDOS? The project has a <a href="https://lists.osdn.me/mailman/listinfo/svardos-users">mailing list</a> just for that.</p> |
| <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? The project has a <a href="https://lists.osdn.me/mailman/listinfo/svardos-users">mailing list</a> just for that.</p> |
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| <h2>Downloads</h2> |
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| <li><a href="download/svardos-floppy-720k.zip">SvarDOS install on 720K floppy disks</a></li> |
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| <p class="wondering">Wondering how SvarDOS is built? You might want to take a look at the <a href="https://osdn.net/projects/svardos/scm/svn/tree/head/">project's SVN</a>, where all the build-related files are stored.</p> |
| <p class="wondering">Wondering how SvarDOS is built? Take a look at the <a href="https://osdn.net/projects/svardos/scm/svn/tree/head/">project's SVN</a>, where all the build-related files are stored.</p> |