Editing DR-DOS (section)

===Later versions===
In 2002, Lineo was bought out, and some of Lineo's former managers purchased the name and formed a new company, DRDOS, Inc. dba [[DeviceLogics]] L.L.C. They have continued to sell DR-DOS for use in embedded systems. DR-DOS 8.0 was released on 30 March 2004 featuring FAT32 and large disk support, the ability to boot from ROM or Flash, multitasking and a DPMI memory manager. This version was based on the kernel from version 7.03.<ref name="freedos"/>

The company later released DR-DOS 8.1 (with better FAT32 support) in autumn 2005. This version was instead based on OpenDOS 7.01.xx.<!-- Exact subversion xx to be determined. --> DR-DOS 8.1 was withdrawn for GPL violations (see [[#Controversies|Controversies]]).

Aside from selling copies of the operating system, the DRDOS, Inc. website lists a buyout option for DR-DOS; the asking price is 
{{currency|amount=25000|code=USD|fmt=gaps|linked=no}}.<ref name="Buyout"/>

The OpenDOS 7.01 source code was a base for ''The DR-DOS/OpenDOS Enhancement Project'', set up in July 2002 in an attempt to bring the functionality of DR-DOS up to parity with modern PC non-Windows operating systems. The project's added native support for large disks ([[Logical block addressing|LBA]]) and the [[FAT32]] file system, and several other enhancements, including improved memory management and support for the new [[FAT32+]] file system extension which allows files of up to 256 GB in size on normal [[File Allocation Table|FAT]] partitions. DR-DOS 7.01.08 WIP (work in progress) was released on 21 July 2011.<ref name="EDR"/>

From 2023 on the last Enhanced DR-DOS release 7.01.08 WIP was ported to an open source build tool chain, which makes the kernel and command interpreter cross-buildable from operating systems other than DOS.<ref name="edrdos_2023"/> The kernel can be built as a single binary ''KERNEL.SYS'' to make it compatible with boot loaders supporting the FreeDOS kernel. It received several bug fixes and updates and as of October 2024 is under active maintenance.