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Wowfunhappy
on May 16, 2022
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The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option
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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