[ltp] Bad news for us ...

Kris Steenhaut linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 04 Jun 2006 02:16:37 +0200


Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV ha scritto:

>On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 18:35 +0200, Bartlomiej Swiercz wrote:
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>>http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=14802
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>Business as usual, then?
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Of course.

>I've owned many Thinkpads, 
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So did I

>and not a one has come with Linux
>preinstalled.
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No, but is never was a problem to install whatever you like. I myself 
simply swapped hard disks in order not to be bothered by Windy affairs.

>  What matters is if they use decent hardware with Linux
>drivers available.  If not, there are plenty of other laptop vendors out
>there.
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Right indeed! At present some Acer for instance do much better (or less 
worse) than the actual Lenovo laptops.

And I repeat ny suggestion the name of the group should change: as it is 
now people get the wrong idea Lenovo laptops are recommended for Linux 
(and other non Windy systems).

-- 
Groeten uit Gent,

   Kris