[ltp] Re: Bad news for us ...

[Dominik Riebeling]

Hi,

On 6/3/06, Wolf Wiegand <wolf@kondancemilch.de> wrote:
> I remember nofost.de selling thinkpads with SuSE pre-installed. I'm not
> sure if that was initiated by nofost.de or IBM, though.

I got one Suse "preloaded" Thinkpad ~2 1/2 years ago which wasn't
preloaded with linux at all -- they included a modified installation
disk for suse (including a driver for the internal modem and so on)
and simply a standard suse box. The Thinkpad itself was preloaded with
Windows XP.

So from my experience I haven't seen any linux-preloaded Thinkpad at all.

 - Dominik

Btw: I was fearing Thinkpads will get worse when Lenovo bought it, and
from what I can see my fear came true -- I really think Lenovo hasn't
understood the market IBM was selling their Thinkpads to. Or maybe
they didn't want to continue to supply that market (which would be a
pretty strange decision to me). Really sad, but for my next laptop I
really need to look for alternatives :(