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Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Thinkpads
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Nicholas Basila said on Nov 29, 2000 at 12:27:54:

> Ah, but I'd bet that they'd be willing to support RH Linux at some
> point. If RH Linux will run on it, FreeBSD probably would, too. Of
> course, I know they'd never ever support FreeBSD, but having it work
> on these laptops without issues would be good.

I don't quite follow that reasoning.  Caldera linux does run on it
now, but FreeBSD doesn't; why would Red Hat running on it change
anything?  (In fact RH likely does run on it, it's just not
"supported" by IBM. I think they entered into a deal with Caldera
over linux on thinkpads.)

R.


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