Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2021 11:29:31 -0600 From: "@lbutlr" <kremels@kreme.com> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: OS to replace FreeBSD Message-ID: <E0307AB0-9A91-4E66-9DAA-9F44BEC25A91@kreme.com> In-Reply-To: <20210321181755.03d51ec9@archlinux> References: <20210320132339.00004d9a@seibercom.net> <38EDD406-3EC4-4F71-B990-DDD1E753D091@kreme.com> <20210321113403.00004056@seibercom.net> <6F32A6A4-9492-44A3-8CC0-684D5AEC5D45@kreme.com> <20210321181755.03d51ec9@archlinux>
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> On 21 Mar 2021, at 11:17, Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net> = wrote: >=20 > On Sun, 21 Mar 2021 10:48:59 -0600, @lbutlr wrote: >> I am almost 100% positive this machine does not have BIOS at all; >> modern Intel machines do not >=20 > To me "BIOS" nowadays is a word for what ever thingy shows up after > pushing the Del key or what ever key else, after turning on the > computer, to get into the thingy. That's fine if you are only talking to people who share your same idea, = but UEFI is not BIOS in very important ways, so calling it BIOS will = lead to confusion, and it can make trouble-shooting far more difficult = if you are trying to tell someone what to do in BIOS which may simply = not be possible in UEFI, or vice versa. --=20 I think we need to send some time apart so we know what's real and = what's fox.
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