Phoenix OS

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Phoenix OS
Phoenix OS desktop
OS family	FreeDOS

Phoenix OS is a FreeDOS Based Distribution Developed by Community DOS users. It aims to be a completely free DOS Distribution for mid-range PC's. POS is based on FreeDOS 1.0 and The ozone graphical desktop environment from Etelain Julien (Point Mad) and Lukas Lipka, Ozone GUI Codename:PhoenixII which is now maintained by Florian Xaver.

The distribution is maintained by C Aitcheson and Florian Xaver. C Aitcheson who started development, first began in 2005 but then was abandoned soon after. In 2006 FreeDOS 1.0 Was released and so the Phoenix OS was reborn a year later November 2007 with the first alpha release "ozone.build.fire.0987.bird.007DISTLIVE" Codenamed the Firebird Distribution the first alpha was released on th 14th of November 2007. Limited use this build did have but, was the stepping stones to get this distribution going.

The Next Scheduled release was early 2008 sometime. "r2.0988" Was going to be the next release but the build had many problems and was to unstable for Public release. v3.0989 will be the first release for 2008. v3.0989 has large improvements to the pre-desktop environment: