On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Bayard R. Coolidge wrote:
So, if they could at least offer a model that can auto-install SuSE 8.0,
that did not have any Microsoft product on it, I'd be very interested.
I think Bayard hits upon a very good point here. If IBM can't justify
selling Linux pre-loaded on
Rich Payne said:
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Bayard R. Coolidge wrote:
So, if they could at least offer a model that can auto-install SuSE 8.0,
that did not have any Microsoft product on it, I'd be very interested.
I think Bayard hits upon a very good point here. If IBM can't justify
selling
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At some point hitherto, Paul Iadonisi hath spake thusly:
1) I refuse to pay full price for a piece of equipment that I'm
not certain is 100% Linux compatible. (Winmodems+NonGPL Linmodem
drivers != 100% Linux compatible in my book.)
Why? You
On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 11:31, Derek D. Martin wrote:
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At some point hitherto, Paul Iadonisi hath spake thusly:
1) I refuse to pay full price for a piece of equipment that I'm
not certain is 100% Linux compatible. (Winmodems+NonGPL Linmodem
Derek D. Martin writes:
Why? You have a driver that works well, so why not use it? Why
should this be considered not Linux compatible? I would agree that
having a free driver would be better, but I don't understand the
sentiment of throwing out good software (or at least usable software)
Perhaps some of you read some recent press indicating the IBM is no
longer supporting Linux on Thinkpads. This is not completely true,
but certainly true enough to catch mine, and some likeminded peer's,
attention. IBM fully intends to support Linux across our product line
but, due to lack of
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Greg Kettmann wrote:
We'd like to take the results and show them to IBM corporate and see if
we can convince them to reconsider. We assume (dangerous word) that
Linux is used far more on Thinkpads than our current shipping numbers
(very, very low) would imply, but we're
Greg Kettmann wrote:
My questions to you folks are twofold. Are you interested in Linux on
Thinkpads?
Are you kidding? That's all I run on mine -- and it frosted me
when I bought mine from IBM last year that I had to get Winblows
preinstalled on it. :-(
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Ken Coar,
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, at 3:20pm, Greg Kettmann wrote:
Any thoughts on sites that might host this for a month or so?
What, IBM doesn't have a web server you can use? ;-) (J/K)
We assume (dangerous word) that Linux is used far more on Thinkpads than
our current shipping numbers (very, very
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[OT comment: gee, Ben, that reply-to sure works well. ;-)]
- Many Linux users like to buy pre-owned equipment, and install Linux
in an after market configuration.
- Many Linux users are both computer-savvy and picky, and thus want to
do
On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 22:22, Ken Ambrose wrote:
[snip]
Bottom line: Linux folk usually buy hardware because they like (*gasp*)
the -hardware-. Not because of how easy the software is to use. Linux
may one day gain a substantial foothold on the desktop, but it hasn't
happened yet, and it
Greg -
Thank you very much for the info on the Thinkpads and Linux.
I didn't log in all day Wednesday, so my response is more of a rejoinder
to the other excellent comments that have already been posted to the
net.
I just took the early retirement package from HP (having worked at DEC
since
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