Jim Hall is best known as founder of the FreeDOS Project. Since 1994, Jim has been the project's coordinator and webmaster, helping build the FreeDOS developer community and the release of “FreeDOS 1.0” in 2006. FreeDOS now ships as an operating system option with several computer companies, including HP and Dell. More generally, Jim is a developer and an advocate of free / open source software, and has helped several companies release DOS applications under an open source license. As a developer, Jim wrote the GNU Robots game and made other contributions (large and small) to several free / open source software projects including: GTKpod, Atomic Tanks, and the Freemacs editor (a clone of GNU Emacs for DOS systems.)

Past PenguiCon Apperances:

• NiftyGuest for PenguiCon 7.0 in 2009