Re: Oracle and Linux

2003-03-18 Thread Ed Lawson
Richard Soule wrote: I also remember some young kid explaining why Oracle didn't understand Linux... Seems like I remember a meeting at UNH where it was said Oracle would never release a product for Linux even thought they had it running on Linux for internal trials. Ed Lawson

Re: Oracle and Linux

2003-03-18 Thread pll
In a message dated: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 09:39:54 EST Ed Lawson said: Richard Soule wrote: I also remember some young kid explaining why Oracle didn't understand Linux... Seems like I remember a meeting at UNH where it was said Oracle would never release a product for Linux even thought they had

Re: Oracle and Linux

2003-03-18 Thread Richard Soule
Ed Lawson wrote: Seems like I remember a meeting at UNH where it was said Oracle would never release a product for Linux even thought they had it running on Linux for internal trials. Clearly maddog Rich at futurism. I bow to his superior predictive capabilities. Of course I'll use my young

RE: IBM Thinkpad 600

2003-03-18 Thread Travis Roy
Hah, I just got one recently.. the little trackpoint thing was broken and I have a new keyboard on the way.. Anyway.. Thinkpads are very linux friendly. The nice thing about the 600 is that it has 3 buttons making X that much better. One thing to remember.. do NOT use lmsensors on a thinkpad

Re: IBM Thinkpad 600

2003-03-18 Thread John Abreau
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all - I have a friend who's considering getting an IBM Thinkpad 600 to play with linux. Anybody have experience with one with linux? Good or bad? Thanks in advance. A couple years ago I had a

Re: IBM Thinkpad 600

2003-03-18 Thread John Abreau
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ken D'Ambrosio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I agree entirely, and across the board. I love my Sony, but I have to say that the IBM TP 600 (just installed Debian on one two weeks ago) is a fine machine. Make sure you have enough RAM, but, b'sides