[ltp] linux laptop (was: Buying a T41p)

[Ferdinand Haselbacher (jr.)]

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hi,
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 07:53:33AM -0800, Michelle Klein-Hass wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Jeffrey Taylor [mailto:jeff.taylor@ieee.org]
> >> Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 10:42 AM
> >>
> >> Quoting Ivarsson, Torbjorn (T) <tivarsson@lucent.com>:
> >> > On a slightly different topic... I friend of mine mentioned
> >> something about an interview in a Linux magazine recently. In that
> >> interview some IBM guy spilled some info about a coming (as in later
> >> this year) Linux laptop from IBM. Has anyone heard this? Is there a
> >> link somewhere?
> >> >
i bought my T40p a few month ago and now they sell many thinkpads with
dualbootoptions but with some not fully working features like the wlan and
other tnhings ! they ship it with suse 9.0 ! althought this is not IBM itse=
lf
it's a IBM premier business partner but i think ibm is somehow involved in
this !=20
here's the link:
http://www.no4ed.de/shop/shopfiles/tabellarisch.asp?TID=3D9WAETT0CSOCE&hide=
Cat=3D1&htmlpage=3Dsuse&PageName=3Dsuse

but this is a german company which sells IBM's for less ! (only with a valid
students id or if u are a working in a hospital ! )=20
> >>
> >> IIRC, IBM is working internally to move to Linux on desktops and
> >> laptops.  And he said IBM doesn't move very fast, so it will probably
> >> be two years before anything is available outside IBM.
> >>
> >> Don't remember where I saw it.
> >
> >Here's the link that mentions what I mentioned...
> >
> >http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=3D7464&mode=3Dthread&order=3D0
> >
> >It's a couple of paragraphs down. Take it for what it is...
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> I think it's coming sooner than Doc Searls thinks.
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> According to the IBM-ers I spoke to at SCALE last year, they have=20
> plans to sell SuSE preloaded ThinkPads by the end of this year. IBM=20
> Credit might go first with their refurbed off-lease ThinkPads.
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> And it's true: IBM moves slowly and cautiously. One of the guys at=20
> SCALE compared how IBM moves to steering a supertanker. The switch to=20
> Linux on the desktop has been in the pipeline for quite a while.
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> HTH,
> Michelle
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HTH=20
Ferdinand

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The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.
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