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Something to do while we wait...
February 06th, 2025
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Previously I mentioned shoe-horning FreeBSD into an Acer C70 Chromebook (liberated by removing jumper 5 iirc). There was also a mention of my rule about loading/reloading OSs. It only took two additional reloads before a.) I had not screwed up the install b.) the flakey nature of the Acer stopped leaving me feeling uneasy. So now I have a functioning FreeBSD system. I will P&M about one aged Acer aspect; unsupported 'Framebuffer' (Maybe?) seems to be preventing X from starting. So, actually, I have a functioning CLI based FreeBSD instance.
Beginning with the very first BSOD of the commercial Win3.x days I knew whether an OS was stable. My stability meter was pegged when I finally began to work with and not against Linux. There were (are) other stable commercial OSs as well. Our EE in charge of implementing PC based Control Systems decided that OS/2 was the only affordable and stable 32 bit OS of the day. My abilitiy to spell OS/2 was the grounds for promotion (I had almost two years experience with it. And supporting Winders. And experimenting with Linux.) All of that is to say that I have developed a sick (sixth) sense about the viability of any OS load.
Even running on a questionable platform FreeBSD is inequivocally one of the stable ones.
