From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Nov 29 14:23:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from echunga.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D010C37B400 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:22:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by echunga.lemis.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eATMEvl52816; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:44:57 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:44:57 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Nicholas Basila Cc: Wes Peters , jonas.bulow@servicefactory.se, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Thinkpads Message-ID: <20001130084457.J48277@echunga.lemis.com> References: <000701c05958$09651ef0$3103000a@gaston> <20001129154748.A47200@echunga.lemis.com> <3A2536A7.EA05719B@epcot.revenio.com> <3A253B51.758D7AF9@softweyr.com> <3A253C9A.EBD363D7@epcot.revenio.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A253C9A.EBD363D7@epcot.revenio.com>; from nbasila@epcot.revenio.com on Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 12:27:54PM -0500 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 29 November 2000 at 12:27:54 -0500, Nicholas Basila wrote: > Wes Peters wrote: > >> Nicholas Basila wrote: >>> >>> I think that IBM ultimately wants to sell these laptops any way they can ... >>> That means with non-MS operating systems. I just wonder how long it will >>> take. >> >> Don't be silly. If they think it will generate more support calls than >> revenue, they will step over us silly BSD users in a heartbeat, chasing >> after the next 50,000-unit corporate sale. > > 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. Red Had Linux runs on these machines. Read the thread: the issue is the partition type. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message