The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option (2022)

The very weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option In this installment: some strange things I discovered when purchasing a FreeDOS laptop from Hewlett Packard. I suspect that the audience for this will be somewhat limited but I had fun exploring this. Perhaps you, dear reader, will find a chuckle in here too. Some background: I recently purchased a HP ZBook 17.8 G8 as I run Fedora Linux I decided to have a little fun with the OS selection and picked the FreeDOS option (Other options include Ubuntu, and various flavors of Windows 11). And! Sure enough: After unpacking and plugging in the laptop I was greeted by the following. The out of the box FreeDOS experience of the HP Zbook Fury 17.8 G8 Apart from this appearing to be a very old version of FreeDOS the primary thing I noticed was how long it took to get to this point. I was also fairly sure that I saw something flash during boot which looked suspiciously like some Linux kernel boot messages. I saved whatever was on the hard drive fr ... Read full article.