Laptops with FreeDOS / Linux instead of Windows - are really valuable! At least because the price of the Win license is included in the laptop price, and nobody in their right mind wants to pay an extra $30 for this glitchy "air". I'd spend these $30 on a RAM upgrade, or donate these $30 to some open source software - to make this world a better place, instead of filling the greedy M$ pockets.
ср, 1 дек. 2021 г. в 20:10, Michał Dec <moog...@gmail.com>: > > When a laptop manufacturer says the computer supports FreeDOS, it's their way > of stating 2 facts: > > 1. Their UEFI has CSM support. > > 2. They offer selling this laptop without a Windows license. > > W dniu 01.12.2021 o 16:31, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user pisze: > > > On Tuesday, November 30th, 2021 at 11:34 PM, dmccunney > dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: > > ... > > And this is not a machine you want to try to set up FreeDOS to run from the > bare metal on. Too much of the hardware is simply not supported by any form > of DOS. DOS stopped being sold and supported long before some of it existed, > and it uses UEFI, not a BIOS, so getting DOS to boot on it will be a real > challenge. > > ... > > > It would be interesting to find someone who purchased it and see exactly what > software HP bundles with it. > > [sarc] > I mean, come on, HP. You love to bundle software with everything! We can't > even buy a printer from you without getting 1.7 GiB of extra crap on a disc. > So what about FreeDOS? Hmm? > [/sarc] > > But seriously, though, I wonder if the hardware in this specific laptop is > actually supported under DOS, and perhaps HP supplies drivers for it just > like they would supply drivers for Windows or whatever other OS they would > sell alongside their hardware. Yeah, I know that's probably not the case. But > that would be nice. That would be nice. :) > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
