Heh, replying to one's own post... seems, so... well, backward. But I should have said "Posted from a Thinkpad 600E running Mandrake, intentionally compiled out sound and of course the modem doesn't work but I am always networked, so I don't need it and when I'm on the road there's always that small Win98 partition for dialing up." I should have especially said it if I wanted to post a great run-on sentence.
Not that it doesn't belong here on slashdot, but this is hardly news. IBM has shown me to be perhaps the best thing for the industry after a long layoff (some of you readers out there probably don't remember the long layoff when Big Blue wasn't so Big). Their support of Linux is obvious and their intentions seem clearer all the time: push Linux and Java. Far from jumping on the bandwagon, they're pushing these technologies themselves.
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Heh, replying to one's own post ... seems, so ... well, backward. But I should have said "Posted from a Thinkpad 600E running Mandrake, intentionally compiled out sound and of course the modem doesn't work but I am always networked, so I don't need it and when I'm on the road there's always that small Win98 partition for dialing up." I should have especially said it if I wanted to post a great run-on sentence.
Not that it doesn't belong here on slashdot, but this is hardly news. IBM has shown me to be perhaps the best thing for the industry after a long layoff (some of you readers out there probably don't remember the long layoff when Big Blue wasn't so Big). Their support of Linux is obvious and their intentions seem clearer all the time: push Linux and Java. Far from jumping on the bandwagon, they're pushing these technologies themselves.