Re: RedHat culture at work

Definitely a good posting though WAY too long for me. I'd love to see some of those constraints applied to every mailing list I have ever seen :) On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 2:23 PM, der.hans wrote: > moin moin, > > Joseph posted this link to the IRC channel. > > I agree with him that it's worth sh

Re: CNN yesterday...

The main stream media is just sound bytes.  From where I sit Linux seems to be a big deal!!  Keith Smith --- On Fri, 8/26/11, kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote: From: kitepi...@kitepilot.com Subject: CNN yesterday... To: "Main PLUG discussion list" Date: Friday, Augus

RedHat culture at work

moin moin, Joseph posted this link to the IRC channel. I agree with him that it's worth sharing and demonstrates good internal culture at Red Hat, Inc. http://www.managementexchange.com/story/employee-led-evolution-memo-list-red-hat ciao, der.hans -- # http://www.LuftHans.com/http://

Re: Linux on a T520

I have the T510 running Ubuntu 11.10 beautifully. No hardware problems and wifi just works too. It was purchased as a win developer's machine so no special consideration for linux was given. On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Dennis Kibbe wrote: > On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 10:18 -0700, KevinO wrote:

Re: Linux on a T520

On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 10:18 -0700, KevinO wrote: > On 08/26/2011 10:16 AM, KevinO wrote: > > I went ahead and bought it directly from Lenovo, configured as above except > > with > > Win 7 Pro pre-installed, for $1300. I got a little over $100 extra off > > because of > > the educational discount.

CNN yesterday...

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/gaming.gadgets/08/25/linux.20/index.html?iref=obnetwork --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/m

Re: Linux on a T520

On 08/26/2011 10:16 AM, KevinO wrote: > I went ahead and bought it directly from Lenovo, configured as above except > with > Win 7 Pro pre-installed, for $1300. I got a little over $100 extra off > because of > the educational discount. > Oops, I left out one of the discounts. I actually got it

Re: Linux on a T520

On 08/26/2011 09:07 AM, Dennis Kibbe wrote: > On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 18:53 -0700, KevinO wrote: >> Anybody running Linux on a Lenovo Thinkpad T520? >> >> I'm thinking of ordering one while they're on sale and then turning it into a >> dual-boot machine. (pre-installed with Windows 7 Pro 64 bit) >> >

Re: Linux on a T520

On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 18:53 -0700, KevinO wrote: > Anybody running Linux on a Lenovo Thinkpad T520? > > I'm thinking of ordering one while they're on sale and then turning it into a > dual-boot machine. (pre-installed with Windows 7 Pro 64 bit) > > What I'm mostly wondering about is hardware comp

Re: Linux on a T520

Also an idea is to look at system76.com as they build Linux laptops specifically im willing to be they have the support for hardware clean and ready and they have some nice machines for the price. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plu

Re: Linux on a T520

There is always the StratPro13 from ZaReason for thinkpad action like laptop Brian http://zareason.com/shop/Strata-Pro-13.html On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Michael Butash wrote: > Check out thinkwiki: > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/**ThinkWiki >

Re: Linux on a T520

Check out thinkwiki: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki Dell is usually about the best for linux compatibility, but ibm's tend to be good, at least before lenovo borg'd them Problem is typically with laptops quirky bios/acpi functions that don't allow it to sleep, hibernate, or shut

Re: Linux on a T520

On 08/25/2011 08:42 PM, Joe zagar wrote: > I have a 520 64 bit, Intel i7, Windows 7 pro, running Ubuntu under Virtual Box > and everything works fine. > Thank you for the data point. -- KevinO --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug