I just wanted to share a quick note that I am planning to update the FreeDOS website. I'm not planning any site redesigns; the website should still look the same. But I am moving to a new web host provider. Among other things, the updated web host will provide and manage https for me.
Dates are approximate, but I'll set up a test site on the new provider in early August, and plan to move the site in mid August. I'll leave the old web host for another week, while DNS changes propagate everywhere. We should be fully on the new web host by late August, and I'll retire the old web host at that time.
The new web host will also include a custom MediaWiki instance for us. Currently, the FreeDOS Wiki runs on a custom MediaWiki hosted at SourceForge. This has worked well, aside from a few unplanned downtimes. Also, the SourceForge-hosted MediaWiki instance doesn't allow outbound emails, which is the main stumbling block to let other users create their own accounts. (Wiki Admins have had to do this, and it's a huge pain; I never remember how to do it.)
I'll plan to move the FreeDOS Wiki in September, well after the website move.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
About Me
- Jim Hall
- I'm Jim Hall, the founder and Project Coordinator for the FreeDOS Project. I started FreeDOS in 1994, when I was an undergraduate physics student at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Other developers got in touch with me, and we began work creating our own version of DOS that would be compatible with MS-DOS. I shared the extended DOS utilities that I had written for myself, as did others. We also found public domain or open source programs that replaced other DOS commands. A few months later, we released our first FreeDOS “Alpha” distribution. And from there, FreeDOS grew into what you see today!
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.