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Jim Hall is an open source software advocate and developer, best known for usability testing in GNOME and as the founder + project coordinator of FreeDOS. At work, Jim is CEO of Hallmentum, an IT executive consulting company that provides hands-on IT Leadership training, workshops, and coaching.
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FreeDOS wasn't always called FreeDOS. When we started the project in June 1994, we called it PD-DOS.
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.msdos.apps/oQmT4ETcSzU/O1HR8PE2…
The PD stood for public domain, because we were creating a DOS that anyone could use. We quickly realized that what we wanted was a Free Software operating system, so only a few weeks later, we'd changed the name to Free-DOS.
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.msdos.apps/W6MuhF__R9s/MgdzBrla…
We officially dropped the hyphen around January 1996 after Pat Villani (who created our Kernel, and was a longtime lead Kernel maintainer) published his book The FreeDOS Kernel.
My favorite music player on Linux is Rhythmbox. I can listen to my local mp3 music collection, or stream most online radio sites. And it's really easy to use.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Rhythmbox