Doscore
| File:Orchidtxt.png Doscore Freedos Distribution |
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| Company / developer | Chase (www.finncomputers.com), JFK (doscore.net) |
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| OS family | DOS |
| Working state | Beta |
| Source model | Open source (FreeDOS), closed source (GUI) |
| Latest stable release | Aura Netdock i007, build 1298 / 2011 |
| Marketing target | Community |
| Available language(s) | English |
| Supported platforms | x86 |
| Kernel type | DOS EXE |
| License | GPL, proprietary Freeware |
| Official website | http://doscore.net/ |
Originally the project Doscore was known as Phoenix OS but because there was a Linux distribution carrying the same name, the project was scrapped and reborn as Doscore. The original Phoenix OS plans were far too ambitious and were also scrapped. Doscore is a FreeDOS-based LiveCD distribution developed by a community of DOS users. There are no full ambitions or goals for Doscore but it does aim to be a graphical user interface distribution with the heart of "FreeDOS".
The current GUI is Aura: based on the open source "Ozone Gui" and originally developed in 2004 by Point Madm Lukas Lipka and Florian Xaver, Aura itself remains closed source and is only available as Freeware inside the Doscore distribution. The developers don't plan to release the code nor to add developers to the crew at this point. Aura is planned to be replaced by Orion, another GUI for Doscore.
The releases of Doscore focus on the Aura Desktop (Milestone 1 Release 8 in 2009, Milestone 2 "Aura Netdock i007" Release 8 in 2011), yet some interim updates incorporate only FreeDOS updates. The complete distribution is versioned as a build (like "1298").
[edit] Future releases
Short-term goals are getting the system online to the World Wide Web and small applications at this point.[when?]
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Xavier, Florian. "The Phoenix ozone gui project II", 0.5.8.0, November 12 2007. 0.5.5.0 October 27 2006.
- The Phoenix OS Official Home Website
- Lipka, Lukas. [1], 0.5.3.0, September 12 2004.
- Doscore [2], New Distribution., January 19 2010.
