IBM laptop

[James Knott]

Marc Lijour wrote:
> On Sunday 15 January 2006 07:09, James Knott wrote:
>> Christopher Browne wrote:
>>> On 1/12/06, Marc Lijour <marc-bbkyySd1vPWsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>>> I am after a good IBM laptop to do development (Java application server,
>>>> Eclipse most of all) and of course to run my favorite Linux distro :-)
>>>>
>>>> What's the best one out there right now? I assume support for Linux
>>>>> being optimum.
>>>> Does somebody know of a good place/site where to buy it?
>>> Well, the modern problem iis that IBM no longer sells laptops.
>>>
>>> They sold the laptop division (possibly the whole "PC Division") to
>>> Lenovo.
>>>
>>> That doesn't bode particularly well for Linux support; IBM had been
>>> interested in this, but it now fades towards irrelevance.
>> One thing to bear in mind, is that Lenovo is a Chinese company and China
>> is encouraging the use of Linux.
> 
> Thank you all for collaborating to this thread. It has become really 
> interesting.
> Somebody suggested the T41. I went to the lenovo web site to do a search and a 
> couple of links have popped up. I tried one and I  went to the drivers & 
> downloads section. No mention of linux there :(
> So far, not so good for linux support.

How do you know that it's not already supported by Linux?
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