When I was shopping for a new PC earlier, I noticed HP has an option to preinstall FreeDOS on new computer.
Does anyone know if HP will provide DOS drivers? e.g. sound card driver
IDK if they really intend it to be functional or only to get around an agreement with MS never to sell a PC without an OS.
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Does the machine's firmware even include a CSM so as to boot it?
Once they had a GNU/Linux system with a full-screen auto-starting virtual machine that could boot either FreeDOS or another GNU/Linux system with a pdf reader: https://blog.tmm.cx/2022/05/15/the-very-weird … freedos-option/
Although ThinPro is aimed for thin clients, it could be a better option than FreeDOS. Still limited, but you can RDP/Citrix/etc to something. It even has a browser?
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BitWrangler wrote on 2024-12-05, 21:10:IDK if they really intend it to be functional or only to get around an agreement with MS never to sell a PC without an OS.
The latter, I think. I had one of such FreeDOS CDs, but made by Dell ?
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I'm also pretty sure the only reason is not to sell computers without any OS.
Is that because of an agreement with Microsoft?
Well, hard to believe that in 2024 Microsoft can still get away with such monopolistic practices, but who knows...
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