Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 12:38:57 -0500 From: Nicholas Basila <nbasila@epcot.revenio.com> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, jonas.bulow@servicefactory.se, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Thinkpads Message-ID: <3A253F31.6BCE88CC@epcot.revenio.com> References: <E50E76D112D8D311907E00508B63B941BE8F6F@minnie.revenio.com> <000701c05958$09651ef0$3103000a@gaston> <20001129154748.A47200@echunga.lemis.com> <3A2536A7.EA05719B@epcot.revenio.com> <3A253B51.758D7AF9@softweyr.com> <3A253C9A.EBD363D7@epcot.revenio.com> <20001129183219.C78076@lpt.ens.fr>
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I didn't know that Caldera worked on these models. Where exactly does
FreeBSD fail? At boot time? Is it merely something strange in the bios?
As I've never tried installing either FreeBSD or Linux on one of these
laptops, I can't really say much of anything.
Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> Nicholas Basila said on Nov 29, 2000 at 12:27:54:
>
> > Ah, but I'd bet that they'd be willing to support RH Linux at some
> > point. If RH Linux will run on it, FreeBSD probably would, too. Of
> > course, I know they'd never ever support FreeBSD, but having it work
> > on these laptops without issues would be good.
>
> I don't quite follow that reasoning. Caldera linux does run on it
> now, but FreeBSD doesn't; why would Red Hat running on it change
> anything? (In fact RH likely does run on it, it's just not
> "supported" by IBM. I think they entered into a deal with Caldera
> over linux on thinkpads.)
>
> R.
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