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SubjectRe: 2.6: future of UMSDOS?
Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-05-19 20:43:21 +0200, Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
>wrote in message <20040519184321.GB24287@fs.tum.de>:
>
>
>>Looking at the state of the UMSDOS code in 2.6 I'm currently wondering
>>about it's future.
>>
>>Are there still potential users and people willing to work on getting it
>>working, or should it be removed from kernel 2.6?
>>
>>
>
>In my early Linux days, UMSDOS was quite a neat thing to have for
>showing Linux to friends by placing a .zip'ed Linux installation on
>their MS-DOS machines.
>
>So for historic reasons, I think it would be nice to have UMSDOS around.
>
>
There are still embedded systems that boot from a DOS file system. Yes,
there are better methods but for backward compatibility I wouldn't like
to see it removed.


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