Andrew, Thanks, yeah, people seem to be "voting" for Thinkpads.
But, is it 8-year-old SON proof? :-) Since besides RGB, IBM is the **other** 600-lb Gorilla of Linux Advocacy (installing on a wristwatch, booting 1k instances thru VMWare on a 390, etc), it saddens me that Thinkpads only come in a choice of M$ XP Home, M$ XP Pro, M$ Vista Home, etc. I thought that the deal of HD manufacturers being contractually obliged to install M$, on the grounds that every customer must be presumed to **intend** installing M$ but may be conspiring to subvert licensing, had gone away? Evidently not. You'd think if anyone could resist that it would be IBM. Peter P.S. with all due respect to Torvalds, I wish I could type "Open Source Flavors of Unix" but it's just too long a sentence fragment. And I doubt "OSFU" will catch on. Maybe GnuFU could? My White-Eyebrow Style GnuFU defeats your Looming Borg Style!! On 4/16/07, Andrew M.A. Cater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 02:22:59PM -0400, Peter St. John wrote: > > Be all that as it may, I"m wondering what laptop to get. There are two > issues: one, that it used to be scary to get all the device drivers for > linux (maybe not anymore); and two, that one would prefer not to pay the tax > associated with the disk manufacturer contracting to preinstall Vista etc. > Toshiba, which used to be a fair linux platform IIRC, promotes itself as the > Premier Vista Notebook now (understandably). > > I ran into http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux-laptop-lc2100.html via a > couple routes but of course it's a no-frills site, dunno what it wouuld be > like to find/get accessories etc. Anyone want to pitch me their laptop > favorite? > I had a long chat recently with one of the UK distributors (Linux Emporium). They stock Lenovo "own brand" and Thinkpad. They support and install Ubuntu 6.06 LTS because they find the others change too radically and sometimes break on hardware changes as well. At least with the LTS release, they can rely on manufacturer support. Thinkpads are solid and have "geek cred": at one Linux show I was at, the Debian stand had 6 Thinkpads of various vintages and a Sony Vaio. Certainly the bare-bones basic Thinkpad I have is 8 year old daughter proof :) Andy > Thanks, > Peter _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
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