29 Mar
2018
29 Mar
'18
1:50 p.m.
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 16:53 Bob Jonkman via talk, <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I welcome further off-topic insights, although the list moderators may not be so tolerant.
I think "hardware that refuses to run Linux" is pretty on-topic. The threat of the locked-out BIOS* is still with us. Hugh and Scott's continuing issues with Intel Atom compatibility on Linux are troubling. Any barrier to Linux "just working" makes what we do more niche. Stewart *: which, as Hugh pointed out, doesn't really exist any more. A BIOS needs a BDOS (Basic Disk Operating System), as any CP/M user would once have known