What's the state of getting FreeBSD (or another BSD) to Atom-based 32-bit UEFI SoC PCs such as the Wintel W8?
Or perhaps this could be something to work on since I think that many people are looking at such as home servers. The Android 4.4 that some of them have also seems pretty much redundant by now so maybe more people are interested in a dual-boot setup on these machines.
Or perhaps there's some middle-ground to add BSD to the pre-installed Windows 10 (32-bit)?
Yes, there are some threads on specific computers on this board.
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I am not very knowledgeable of how SoC designs differ from other home computers (so-called "commodity hardware") so I wonder if these computers will behave differently with regards to "conventional OS installation on HDD". For example, whether they have some sort of hard-coded boot sequencing or something that would mess things up if one alters the shipped partition schemes, boot sectors, or something.
Or perhaps this could be something to work on since I think that many people are looking at such as home servers. The Android 4.4 that some of them have also seems pretty much redundant by now so maybe more people are interested in a dual-boot setup on these machines.
Or perhaps there's some middle-ground to add BSD to the pre-installed Windows 10 (32-bit)?
Yes, there are some threads on specific computers on this board.
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I am not very knowledgeable of how SoC designs differ from other home computers (so-called "commodity hardware") so I wonder if these computers will behave differently with regards to "conventional OS installation on HDD". For example, whether they have some sort of hard-coded boot sequencing or something that would mess things up if one alters the shipped partition schemes, boot sectors, or something.