--- title: How a college student founded a free and open source... description: Jim Hall is best known as the computer programmer who founded the FreeDOS project. Jim created FreeDOS in response to Microsoft ending support for MS-DOS in... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-a-college-student-founded-a-free-and-open-source-operating-system-opensource-com-oxkxsaepn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How a college student founded a free and open source operating system | Opensource.com | daily.dev og:description: Jim Hall is best known as the computer programmer who founded the FreeDOS project. Jim created FreeDOS in response to Microsoft ending support for MS-DOS in... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-a-college-student-founded-a-free-and-open-source-operating-system-opensource-com-oxkxsaepn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/OXkXsaepN.png og:image:alt: How a college student founded a free and open source operating system | Opensource.com og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How a college student founded a free and open source operating system | Opensource.com **[Open Source Way](https://daily.dev/sources/oss)** · 10 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Jim Hall is best known as the computer programmer who founded the FreeDOS project. Jim created FreeDOS in response to Microsoft ending support for MS-DOS in 1994. Jim Hall: Even a beginner can get started writing an operating system like FreeDOS. He says you can write a lot of those programs even with a basic level of programming experience. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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