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

[Jona Joachim]

On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:50:12 +0200
"Julian H. Stacey" <jhs at berklix.org> wrote:

> > Lenovo is asking this at
> > <http://lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=3D98> 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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