[wplug] IBM Laptop

[Henry Umansky]

Excellent tutorial, I will definately use it, thank you.  I will try to put 
up a fuss, the more people that complain the better, maybe eventually they 
will give the consumer a choice (isn't that the point of capitalism) of 
which OS to install.  I thought that IBM was one of those big-time Linux 
companies, so why don't they offer Linux on their laptops and desktops??

-Henry

--On Thursday, October 10, 2002 12:41 PM -0400 Alexandros Papadopoulos 
<apapadop at cmu.edu> wrote:r

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> On Thursday 10 October 2002 12:27, Henry Umansky wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> I'm about to purchase and IBM Thinkpad R32 and I wanted to install Linux
>> on that machine.  I was just wondering if anyone knew of any hardware
>> problems with that laptop??  Will everything work with it, especially
>> the built-in modem and ethernet?  Also, I heard rumors of being able to
>> decline the MS agreement when you first start your laptop, install
>> Linux,  and you can get a refund of some kind.  It sounds bogus, but I
>> just wanted to double-check.
>
> <self-promotion mode>
> Well, you could have a look at a tutorial I've put up at
> http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~apapadop/howto.html
> for my experiences installing Red Hat 7.3 on a T23.
> </self-promotion mode>
>
> On the T23 everything works fine (little trouble with modem, dunno about
> IrDA  but people have reported that both work)
>
> - From there on, see if there are major differences in the hardware and
> make  your decision.
>
> The refund stuff will work if you're ready to argue big time with your
> vendor  - - if you get the chance though, do it.
>
> (our CMU laptops came "preconfigured", so we didn't have a chance to
> accept  any EULA before using them...)
>
> - -A
> - --
> http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~apapadop/pub_key.asc
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Henry Umansky
University of Pittsburgh
Systems/Programmer III
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