Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 12:48:13 -0500 From: Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com> To: bwoods2@uswest.net Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, brett@lariat.org Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Thinkpads Message-ID: <3A25415D.C7E9B04F@wmptl.com> References: <F279UH2s3CfuHS7tszy00007619@hotmail.com>
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gaurdian gaurdian wrote: > > So what: > > 1) They have no obligation to support FreeBSD. > > 2) If you dont like it, dont buy their Laptops... > I for one, have no issues with them. > > 3) I have FreeBSD running fine on my Thinkpad 600E > and have had it there for the last year. > > >From: "Brett Glass" <brett@lariat.org> > >To: "Nicholas Basila" <nbasila@epcot.revenio.com>, " " > ><jonas.bulow@servicefactory.se> > >CC: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, " " > ><freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> > >Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer > >Thinkpads > >Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 09:35:17 -0700 > > > >IBM's tactics are the old "bait and switch." They want users to > >move to AIX, not FreeBSD or Linux. Unfortunately, their PR people > >have pretended to jump on the Linux bandwagon in a big way, and > >this hurts the BSDs. > > > >--Brett > > > >At 09:21 AM 11/28/2000, Nicholas Basila wrote: > > > > >Hmmm, > > > > > > Well, I never liked their laptops, anyway. I'm surprised they don't > > >support RH Linux. I'm glad to know that they support all the lousy MS > > >operating systems ... > > > > > > > > > > > >> > > >> > > >> -----Original Message----- > > >> From: Jonas Bulow [mailto:jonas.bulow@servicefactory.se] > > >> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 9:32 AM > > >> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; freebsd-mobie@freebsd.org; > > >> freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org > > >> Subject: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer > > >> Thinkpads > > >> > > >> > > >> http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/MIGR-4QHLS4.html > > >> > > >> > > >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > > > > > > _____________________________________________________________________________________ > Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message I too have a NEWER IBM Thinkpad, and was truly disapointed; not by the fact that IBM doesn't support FreeBSD - that part was assumed... but rather by the fact that IBM made the bios incompatable with any type 165 partitions on a disk. Thus rendering the newer (Thinkpad A20M-series; eg my 2428U) laptops incapable of running FreeBSD. When asked about some sort of bios patch to disable the suspend/resume function's usage of type 165; IBM just replies 'we don't support using freebsd on these machines; but we do now support using caldera's eDesktop 2.4 on them'. So I went with Slackware 7.1 just for the record. If anyone does find a way to run FreeBSD on something other than type 165 partitions I'd love to hear about it. -- Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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