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aidenn0
on May 15, 2022
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The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option
When I last ordered from HP, many laptops did not have Linux as an option (mine did not, so I bought the FreeDOS version)
Wowfunhappy
on May 16, 2022
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Well that's also weird! Why are both options available on some computers, while others only have FreeDOS, even when they can't actually run FreeDOS.
bryanlarsen
on May 16, 2022
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My guess is that those computers are missing Linux drivers for modern devices like a camera or fingerprint scanner or something. Those wouldn't be expected to be supported in FreeDOS, but would be in Linux.
aidenn0
on May 16, 2022
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It ran FreeDOS just fine (and indeed runs Linux just fine for me), presumably they didn't want to QA that model with Linux.
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