I don't understand how you people can expect a perfect product, you gave IBM time, they worked on a fix, with the amount of work that goes into making a computer, it won't be perfect, thats why patches come out for drivers, and bios updates come out......when is the last time you screwed up?
First off, disabling a linux distro has nothing to do with it, Linux worked fine, only FreeBSD was affected. They even ship machines with Caldera, while not my first choice for a *nix os, it shows a little initiative. Second, why spend $10000 in testing for one machine, it's not good business sense....and if you look into the issue a little further, there are probably less then 100 people who've tried to install FreeBSD on the thinkpad, IBM is a business, if you don't like the way their product works, then don't buy it, they don't owe you anything.
Yes, IBM doesn't have enough to test, getting '95/'98/ME/NT/2000 to work, devices, docking stations, pcmcia cards, printers, scanners, displays, dvd players, assorted software, modems (for each country they sell thinkpads), OpenGL issues........ in the grand scheme of things, a few machines that can't load BSD yet, aren't that important to most people, and it doesn't mean it will never work, but these things take time. Believe it or not, most of IBM tech support are probably unix people and slashdot readers, I bet they have a big linux box they all play on, and have their own internal linux mailing list.... you don't always see what happens behing the scenes.
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I don't understand how you people can expect a perfect product, you gave IBM time, they worked on a fix, with the amount of work that goes into making a computer, it won't be perfect, thats why patches come out for drivers, and bios updates come out......when is the last time you screwed up?
No, it was an accident. But the little guy in japan who makes these decisions probably doesn't care about BSD much, not intentional though....
First off, disabling a linux distro has nothing to do with it, Linux worked fine, only FreeBSD was affected. They even ship machines with Caldera, while not my first choice for a *nix os, it shows a little initiative. Second, why spend $10000 in testing for one machine, it's not good business sense....and if you look into the issue a little further, there are probably less then 100 people who've tried to install FreeBSD on the thinkpad, IBM is a business, if you don't like the way their product works, then don't buy it, they don't owe you anything.
Yes, IBM doesn't have enough to test, getting '95/'98/ME/NT/2000 to work, devices, docking stations, pcmcia cards, printers, scanners, displays, dvd players, assorted software, modems (for each country they sell thinkpads), OpenGL issues........ in the grand scheme of things, a few machines that can't load BSD yet, aren't that important to most people, and it doesn't mean it will never work, but these things take time. Believe it or not, most of IBM tech support are probably unix people and slashdot readers, I bet they have a big linux box they all play on, and have their own internal linux mailing list.... you don't always see what happens behing the scenes.