DOS Chromebook? I do not believe FreeDOS could compete with the latest web browser technologies. It is an interesting concept though.I believe an attempt was made to Resurrect Amiga with a working machine and desktop sometime ago.
FreeDOS is fun stuff for sure. Every once in a while, I enjoy tinkering around with it and sometimes programming in that environment. OpenBSD is not polished like Ubuntu and such. Lots of troubleshooting and configuring. X and wireless are the most difficult ones for my laptop. I went for it because it is not very political. The developers are typically quiet and just go about their business. By the way, I have an older laptop that runs Gentoo. I use it mostly to Skype my 12 year old daughter. Other than that, I used to be a big fan of Fedora until the big blue bought them out. I suppose today, if I wanted something my kid could use, I would use OpenSuSE. On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 10:22 AM Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 8:10 AM Mark Olesen <markjole...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > That sounds fantastic. It is unfortunate development was abandoned. > > Having multiple choices seems like a good idea. > > TinyCore Linux also has a "Core" (11 MB) "base system which provides > only a command line interface". > > The biggest problem is probably non-free / non-redistributable > firmware, not the actual wireless drivers. (My ancient Dell laptop has > BCM4312, which is a minor pain to get working.) > > > Q: Does anyone know if DELL still uses FreeDOS for firmware and BIOS > > updates? Or maybe they used to ship a computer with FreeDOS as the > > primary OS? > > > > At one point, I know they did. I have not kept up with the times, > > however. I would imagine it would be very lite? > > I know almost nothing, but the only link I can think of is this one: > > * > https://www.dell.com/support/article/en-us/sln171755/update-the-dell-bios-in-a-linux-or-ubuntu-environment?lang=en#updatebios2015 > > But keep in mind that BIOS/CSM is effectively dead: > > * > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface#CSM_booting > > "In November 2017, Intel announced that it planned to phase out > support for CSM by 2020." > > I don't know the exact rationale. It may be to remove support burdens, > reduce costs, speed up booting times, or just drop unnecessary legacy. > Actually, I half got the impression it was for power management / > battery life reasons. But it could also be for security (secure > boot?). > > (Windows is still 80% marketshare, everything else considered relevant > is "POSIX" [usually Linux]. Hence nobody majorly needs BIOS/CSM > anymore, AFAIK.) > > > I have an OpenBSD Lenovo A485 laptop rig. Since I do not run Windows, > > they provided a bootable ISO. I have no idea what they are using? > > IIRC, FreeBSD has the best hardware support out of all the *BSD > family. The big differences with OpenBSD are that they refuse NDAs, > insist on building atop actual hardware, support various sentimental > machines, and also have a monolithic kernel with no separate modules. > (Corrections welcome, I could be wrong.) Apparently 6.8 was just > released last month for their 25th anniversary. (I've only, very > barely, tried earlier versions under VM.) Then again, I was surprised > (a few years ago) that FreeBSD was still supporting ancient ARMv6 > (early RaspPi??), but even there, the only Tier One platforms are > AMD64 and i386 (with various others under Tier Two). Even most Linux > distributions (e.g. Ubuntu) have dropped i386 support. > > There are many full Linux laptops for sale these days. I'm looking to > buy one myself soon. This Dell Chromebook isn't too shabby either. (We > really need a DOS Chromebook. Obviously it won't have Chrome. Or at > least something that can run QEMU. This one does [Linux "beta", > cmdline only, optional], but I don't think it allows switching OS > images, probably for security reasons.) > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
