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

[Tony K.]

I know IBM supports Linux on servers, but has there ever been any
"official" support for Linux in IBM Thinkpads before Lenovo took over?
 I have been running my X40 for a little over a year with Linux and I
have never run across any "official" support of Linux on Thinkpads
from IBM.

On 6/3/06, Dominik Riebeling <dominik.riebeling@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 :(
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