Re: What Linux^W distribution would you most like to see supported on a ThinkPad?

2007-09-14 Thread Jona Joachim 
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:50:12 +0200
"Julian H. Stacey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > Lenovo is asking this at
> >  and, yes!, FreeBSD is
> > a proposed choice.
> > 
> > ATM, the first choice is "Anyone that refuses to carry binary-only
> > drivers, so that all others will also benefit, as it will require
> > documented hardware", which is also a very good choice.
> 
> I of course like source too,
> but this rather destroys the force of that argument:
>   On FreeBSD-6.2-RELEASE:
>   man nve
>   then go use find on /usr/src. it's a BLOB < Linux & MS compat
> PS there's source coming in from elsewhere now for 
>   man nfe
> in 7-current & patches for stable & 6.2
> 
> Summary: binary only doesnt seem to have precluded FreeBSD in case of
> nve, though again, yes we all prefer source avail. too :-)

Yup, the only mainstream operating systems / distributions that match
"Anyone that refuses to carry binary-only drivers, so that all others
will also benefit, as it will require documented hardware" are Debian
GNU/Linux and OpenBSD.


Jona

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Re: What Linux^W distribution would you most like to see supported on a ThinkPad?

2007-09-14 Thread Julian H. Stacey 
> Lenovo is asking this at 
> and, yes!, FreeBSD is a proposed choice.
> 
> ATM, the first choice is "Anyone that refuses to carry binary-only
> drivers, so that all others will also benefit, as it will require
> documented hardware", which is also a very good choice.

I of course like source too,
but this rather destroys the force of that argument:
On FreeBSD-6.2-RELEASE:
man nve
then go use find on /usr/src. it's a BLOB < Linux & MS compat
PS there's source coming in from elsewhere now for 
man nfe
in 7-current & patches for stable & 6.2

Summary: binary only doesnt seem to have precluded FreeBSD in case of nve,
though again, yes we all prefer source avail. too :-)

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Re: What Linux^W distribution would you most like to see supported on a ThinkPad?

2007-09-13 Thread Chad Perrin 
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 05:49:30PM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> Larry Rosenman wrote:
> >I always take "Linux" as a proxy for "Open-Source OS" in these type
> >of polls.
> 
> Linux: The xerox of the open-source OS community.

. . . or maybe the kleenex.

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Re: What Linux^W distribution would you most like to see supported on a ThinkPad?

2007-09-12 Thread Darren Pilgrim 

Larry Rosenman wrote:

I always take "Linux" as a proxy for "Open-Source OS" in these type
of polls.


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Re: What Linux^W distribution would you most like to see supported on a ThinkPad?

2007-09-12 Thread Dan Langille 
On 12 Sep 2007 at 16:33, Larry Rosenman wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Nikola Lecic wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:02:11 +0200
> > Thierry Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> Lenovo is asking this at 
> >> and, yes!, FreeBSD is a proposed choice.
> >
> > ... listed as a Linux distro. :|
> 
> I always take "Linux" as a proxy for "Open-Source OS" in these type of polls.

It appears that anyone can add a new choice to the poll.

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Re: What Linux^W distribution would you most like to see supported on a ThinkPad?

2007-09-12 Thread Chad Perrin 
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 10:57:53PM +0200, Nikola Lecic wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:02:11 +0200
> Thierry Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Lenovo is asking this at 
> > and, yes!, FreeBSD is a proposed choice.
> 
> ... listed as a Linux distro. :|

I bet if it got a substantial showing in that poll more people would
start noticing things like the fact FreeBSD isn't a Linux distribution.

Maybe not may more -- but it'd be a step in the right direction.

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Re: What Linux^W distribution would you most like to see supported on a ThinkPad?

2007-09-12 Thread Larry Rosenman 

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Nikola Lecic wrote:


On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:02:11 +0200
Thierry Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Lenovo is asking this at 
and, yes!, FreeBSD is a proposed choice.


... listed as a Linux distro. :|


I always take "Linux" as a proxy for "Open-Source OS" in these type of polls.

LER
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Re: What Linux^W distribution would you most like to see supported on a ThinkPad?

2007-09-12 Thread Nikola Lecic 
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:02:11 +0200
Thierry Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Lenovo is asking this at 
> and, yes!, FreeBSD is a proposed choice.

... listed as a Linux distro. :|

Nikola Lečić
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