{"id":57778,"date":"2021-06-30T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T09:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=57778"},"modified":"2021-06-30T09:00:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T09:00:26","slug":"how-a-college-student-founded-a-free-and-open-source-operating-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=57778","title":{"rendered":"How a college student founded a free and open source operating system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/puzzle_computer_solve_fix_tool.png\" width=\"1041\" height=\"584\" alt=\"Puzzle pieces coming together to form a computer screen\" title=\"Puzzle pieces coming together to form a computer screen\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opensource.com\/users\/jim-hall\">Jim Hall<\/a> is best known as the computer programmer who founded the FreeDOS project. Jim began the project in 1994 as a replacement for MS-DOS while he was still a student at the University of Wisconsin\u2013River Falls. Jim created FreeDOS in response to Microsoft ending support for MS-DOS in 1994.\u00a0Recently Jim agreed to an email interview. Correspondent Joshua Allen Holm joined me in posing the following questions to Jim.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don Watkins: What kind of skill set invites you to write your own operating system?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opensource.com\/article\/21\/6\/freedos-founder\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Hall is best known as the computer programmer who founded the FreeDOS project. Jim began the project in 1994 as a replacement for MS-DOS while he was still a student at the University of Wisconsin\u2013River Falls. Jim created FreeDOS in response to Microsoft ending support for MS-DOS in 1994.\u00a0Recently Jim agreed to an email [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}