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IBM Dropping Laptop Linux Support
Bjarne Bula writes "In a message to the linux-thinkpad mailing list, Keith Frechette, former (as of Monday, June 24th) lead developer of Linux support on ThinkPads,
reported that IBM has decided to no longer fund that project." I've been using
Linux on a ThinkPad for some time now. If it stops being compatible, my next
laptop won't be a ThinkPad. Too bad, because the machines are solid. Update: In an interesting counter-point, Information Week tells us that IBM will be opening a manhattan based "Linux Center of Competence" to show off Linux. Go figure.
IBM are a bunch of graffiti spraying vandals anyway.
but that's the IBM way :P
Take that you Open Source Nazi's! Another win for the Closed Source community!
It makes me warm inside know you guys won't get support from IBM to run your Penguin shit OS on IBM Laptop hardware.
Shut up, Ballmer.
It's not the ssh terminal opening up on OSX that does it. Heck, you could probably ssh from DOS.
/usr/bin :-)
It's ssh'ing TO the iBook and doing an
ls
that brings a smile to my face!!!
I guess linux on the laptop is no longer part of the triangle offense?
I'd suggest you don't use Slashdot as your only news source, or you will suffer permanent brain damage.
I don't have a Thinkpad, but I use GNU/Linux and can't get a girlfriend, no matter what I do. From what I can tell, not too many of you have girlfriends either; I must make it clear right now that I do not want advice from you. I am seeking the advice of those who have consentual, regular, heterosexual intercourse with a well adjusted woman.
.... a fucking GNU/Linux hippy". He sounded so defeated. She wanted to go to the beach, but my skin is not adjusted to the sun and my skin peels while at the beach. This was not a turn on for her and when she came back to my mum's basement that night we were going to have sex but the raw skin was too much for her.
You may be wondering why I placed so many restrictions on the type of sexual intercourse. Being a GNU/Linux user, I can get all the men I want, but my ass hurts from years of anal sex. I am tired of pillow-biting. I have met women at Linux User Groups (LUGs) but they didnt want sex the way I wanted it - they brought their strap on and rode my chute like the men did. The date would end with her taking me to a gay bar and selling my ass to a drunk and bearded kernel hacker.
I am convinced, therefore, that I need to meet women that do not use GNU/Linux.
I have tried dating regular women, but find it hard to make conversation. I was surprised that regular women do not give a shit about Free Software or the Microsoft monopoly which leaves me with nothing to discuss. Some women tried to talk about the weather, but I don't keep up with the weather from my mums' basement.
I have had some success, I dated one girl several times. She picked me up from home, mum liked her. I am sure dad would have too, but he left us soon after I installed Slackware on the family computer. I can still hear him crying and see him moping around the house, saying "I knew he was different; I could handle a gay son, but this
Going out at night for a meal can be difficult too; all restaurants refuse to serve smelly GNU/Linux hippies. The only place we can go for food is the McDonald's drive through, but she doesnt like waiting in her car in the heat of the day when I tend to smell the most. She doesn't like the stares she gets from the drive through staff.
I could go on, but I won't. I now seek your advice.
yeah, and the admins of THOSE servers are exactly the kind of people who are gonna want to run (*)*n*x on their laptop. i mean, if IBM gave you 10 linux preloaded Thinkpads with every million-dollar installation what do you think the average serverfarm sysadmin would feel about a preferred supplier?
That was classic intercourse!
"there ate not enough users"
Maybe if they would stop eating their users...
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?