At 03:26 PM 12/22/2011, James Hall wrote: >I think it's pretty cool to see vendors including FreeDOS as a >pre-installed operating system option. Unfortunately, I think many >vendors (and users, probably) view FreeDOS as the equivalent of "naked >PC", with the intention of installing something else after purchase. > >I knew that Dell and HP had FreeDOS as operating system options, but I >didn't realize Lenovo did this as well. Interesting. Thanks for >sharing!
A lot of manufacturers do this simply due to the fact that Microsoft gives them favorable prices for Windows (less than <$50 a pop instead of the retail price of +$160) if they do not sell a PC "without" OS and they also can not sell Linux on the same models. So FreeDOS is a convenient loophole, nothing else. None of the vendors will support any question regarding FreeDOS, whatsoever. Ralf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
