Re: [MLUG] Dell Open-Source Notebooks

[George Robb <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Hey there now... Don't be talking dirt about FreeDOS.  It may be an  
unwanted thing but, it is still FOSS and is better than nothing.  heheh

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedos
http://www.freedos.org/

Also, you can hack together a system really fast with non Linux  
developers who understand the old school dos days...

e.g. A student worker in our shop built a LiveCD wiping utility that  
would nuke the hard drive with zeros and build a 10 meg boot  
partition and bring the machine to boot prompt with the message.   
"This machine has been wiped for MU Surplus."

(I know the same LiveCD could be built with isolinux and dd in a few  
moments but, gota give credit it is a cool use for FreeDOS)

What drivers are you missing for your notebook?  Is there not a  
kernel module?  Can I help?

:-)

George




On Feb 23, 2007, at 2:42 PM, Mike Miller wrote:

> Dell is selling these now:
>
> http://www.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/nseries_nb
>
> But they come with "FreeDOS" which is, what exactly?  So I look it  
> up and see that it is MS-DOS compatible.  No one wants that!  Maybe  
> they have agreements with Microsoft that prevented them from  
> selling Notebooks with Linux on them.
>
> What we really need are Linux drivers for the notebooks.  Right?  I  
> can't see how FreeDOS helps us.
>
> Mike
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