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It's for people who, for whatever reason, don't want to pay for the OS. They need to put something on there, so they went with something very simple and free w
by ltbarcly3 2y ago
It's for people who, for whatever reason, don't want to pay for the OS. They need to put something on there, so they went with something very simple and free where there's no chance of having to support it.
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- lproven 2y agoYou didn't read the article, did you?
- dredmorbius 2y ago<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42688981 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42688981>
- lproven 2y ago[Sigh] OK. When the entire point of the article is that the FreeDOS option DOES NOT BOOT DOS then when someone did not notice that, this indicates that they did not read even the first screen of text on their phone, and that level of inactivity to me means "you are not contributing to the discussion here, you are detracting from it." Others mileage may vary. Even the mods'.
- dredmorbius 2y agoFYI, I'm not saying you were wrong, or that the comment wasn't warranted. I'll often note comments which fail any apparent reading of the article ... but I generally try to do that without mentioning the fact. Numerous examples in: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adredmorbius%20tfa&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...> And if the point seems to bear a more explicit mention, well, There Are Ways: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40837625 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40837625> Trust me I feel your pain, but HN guidelines are aimed at steering threads back on track if that's remotely possible. That's usually a Good Thing of itself.
- lproven 2y agoFair enough. Good point, well made.
- dredmorbius 2y agoThanks. Playing within the lines ... helps.
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoThe blog post describes a system that boots Debian, then that runs a fullscreen instance of qemu that runs a multiboot system, and one of the things that VM can boot into is FreeDOS. I would not describe this as "simple".