[ltp] IBM Linux HOWTO for ThinkPad 600E and RH Certification

[William Ball]

On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Tom Rockwell wrote:

> The certification is given by RedHat, they set the rules, not IBM. 
> Briefly looking at the RedHat pages, it looks like the certification
> essentially requires that the system "works" (mouse, disks, keyboard,
> video) using the standard RedHat install.  Things like USB, sound,
> modem, networking aren't covered in the certification.

fair enough... then the 'certification' seems a worthless label?

by that measure, the AST A61, Hitachi M120D and Compaq Presario 1240
laptops are just as able to be 'certified' for Red Hat (i've installed and
configured RH on these models...)

many other laptops on the linux laptop pages could be 'certified' then
too, right?

gee, things are really looking up! i guess there are lot more
'certified'-eligible laptops than i thought!

:-)

> IMO it's great that companies are moving in this direction. Some
> incompatibilities will take a while to resolve however.  I hope that
> companies like IBM are now paying attention to Linux compatibility in
> the design of future systems.

i thought IBM was supposed to make an announcement about a laptop for
linux Real Soon Now?

the Dell folks i talked with at LinuxWorld in early August told me that
the Inspirons were getting Linux support in (at that time) 'a few weeks.'

(and i still don't see their web page offering Linux as an alternative on
their units yet)...

<sigh> someday?