Doscore

Originally the project Doscore was known as Phoenix OS but because there was a Linux distribution carrying the same name, the project was scrapped and reborn as Doscore. The original Phoenix OS plans were far too ambitious and were also scrapped.
Doscore is a FreeDOS-based LiveCD distribution developed by a community of DOS users. There are no full ambitions or goals for Doscore but it does aim to be a graphical user interface distribution with the heart of "FreeDOS".
The current GUI is Aura: based on the open source "Ozone Gui" and originally developed in 2004 by Point Mad Lukas Lipka and Florian Xaver, Aura itself remains closed source and is only available as Freeware inside the Doscore distribution. The developers don't plan to release the code nor to add developers to the crew at this point.
Aura Milestone 1 Released in 2009,
This was the first public release from the Finn Technologies & Doscore Teams as a milestone of rebuilding the Ozone GUI code as-well as introducing the new Aura Desktop and sample applications.
Aura Milestone 2 codenamed:Netdock i007 Released in 2011,
The milestone 2 distribution was a collaboration effort between Finn Technologies and doscore to incorporate an automated TCP/IP bootable CD that is network aware and capable of detecting its own hardware on a DOS level so that development could begin on integrating the WATTCP code for internel GUI applications. The live CD had the makings of an install program as-well as new themes and slight updates to the desktop.
Aura Milestone 3 codenamed:Avalon-Deathstar Released in may 2012,
On the 1st of may 2012 finn technologies and doscore announced & released the latest version of Aura M3 to the public after adding the WATTCP code and some sample apps were built to test the new code. There were also many desktop enhancements such as running dos applications directly from the menu, translucent bars & windows and the batchinator batch script program. Although many users wanted Aura M3 to be a standalone GUI for the freedos community due to the environment variables inside the dos distribution it was going to be to complicated for the average user to setup nor did they want in to be re-distributed by others.
The binary executables are freeware but the source code is closed but loosely based on Ozone GUI which is open source code available from the ozone gui website.
Future releases
Aura Milestone 4
Short-term goals are getting the system online to the World Wide Web and small applications at this point. which was achieved in M3 with the intergration on the WATTCP code and the next milestone will most likely be the final in the "M" Series of releases.

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