From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Nov 29 9:27:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from epcot.revenio.com (unknown [209.202.137.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CE54D37B400 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:27:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 74847 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2000 17:27:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO epcot.revenio.com) (10.0.3.49) by epcot.revenio.com with SMTP; 29 Nov 2000 17:27:54 -0000 Message-ID: <3A253C9A.EBD363D7@epcot.revenio.com> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 12:27:54 -0500 From: Nicholas Basila Organization: Revenio, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wes Peters Cc: Greg Lehey , jonas.bulow@servicefactory.se, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Thinkpads References: <000701c05958$09651ef0$3103000a@gaston> <20001129154748.A47200@echunga.lemis.com> <3A2536A7.EA05719B@epcot.revenio.com> <3A253B51.758D7AF9@softweyr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. 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. > > -- > "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" > > Wes Peters Softweyr LLC > wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message