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I just found out the hard way that FreeBSD effectively abandoned my Atom netbook starting with 14.3.
The upgrade from the now-EOL 14.2 succeeded, except the drm, i915kms, and other kernel module friends were removed from the i386 pkg repos, & graphics/drm-61-kmod, the only drm-kmod port, refuses to try building on i386.
Looks like this is the end of the Unix-likes road for still fully working x86 PCs.
I don't want to put the preinstalled Windows 7 back on this netbook because it's too underpowered. It came with Windows 7 Starter, I bought and activated a Windows 7 Home Basic license using its Windows Anytime Upgrade, and that turned out to bloat the already sluggish experience.
Since the way back is a poor vintage computing experience, the way forward might be Haiku. I just wonder if it supports the weird graphics resolution 1024x600.