New PDOS Vlogs (Public Domain Operating System) (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by walnutwalrus@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/425629

https://www.pdos.org/vlog/vlog.htm

Main site: https://www.pdos.org/

Public Domain Software Philosophy: https://sourceforge.net/p/pdos/gitcode/ci/master/tree/pdpgoal.txt

In the public domain software world I still mostly only see PDOS and various TempleOS related projects and forks

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[-] vickychen@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

That's an unfortunate acronym

[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Really?

I find it useful as a file server.

Course, you need a special driver for Linux to access the pdofile service.

[-] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Why so?

[-] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Say it aloud.

[-] Marsupial@quokk.au 1 points 1 year ago

I just say it as P-DOS.

I’m guessing somehow you’re pronouncing it as paedo.

[-] walnutwalrus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

that's how it's pronounced, and is apparent probably to those familiar with DOS, although to be fair I have recently thought of the alternative pronunciation suggested by the OP of this comment chain

[-] GrapinoSubmarino@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

PubDOS sounds better IMO

[-] walnutwalrus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This could be suggested as an alternative name

[-] d3Xt3r@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

So, practically/functionally speaking, how is this different from FreeDOS, and why should I use this instead of FreeDOS?

[-] walnutwalrus@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

mostly just software licensing versus FreeDOS and much less functionality (but the focus has been on squaring away basics, anyone could probably add a lot more public domain programs on from this point forward, idk what fundamentals still need to be fixed)

[-] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

What is the news?

[-] walnutwalrus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

well tbh not many seem to know of this project so I'm just posting about the project in general (which is presumably new to most people seeing it) but the vlogs are newer this year as well since I last checked the project

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