Doscore
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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").
Doscore is a FreeDOS
FreeDOS
FreeDOS is an operating system for IBM PC compatible computers. FreeDOS is made up of many different, separate programs that act as "packages" to the overall FreeDOS Project...
-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
Graphical user interface
In computing, a graphical user interface is a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices with images rather than text commands. GUIs can be used in computers, hand-held devices such as MP3 players, portable media players or gaming devices, household appliances and...
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").
Future releases
Short-term goals are getting the system online to the World Wide Web and small applications at this point.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. http://ozonegui.sourceforge.net/, 0.5.3.0, September 12 2004.
- Doscore http://doscore.net/, New Distribution., January 19 2010.