[Novalug] Lenovo to offer SUSE Linux with ThinkPad laptops

Greg Faust gregfaust@gmail.com
Tue Aug 7 08:40:34 EDT 2007


Out of fairness to SUSE, was the issue you had to visit your helpdesk for
related to hardware or software?

On 8/6/07, jason <novalug@jasons.us> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Greg Faust wrote:
>
> > Just in case anyone hasn't seen this yet:
> >
> > http://www.lenovo.com/news/us//en/2007/08/novell.html
> >
> > Sould I buy stock in Lenovo and Novell now or should I wait until the
> new
> > laptops hit the market?
>
> If my Thinkpad T60 is any indication I would wait.  This thing is one of
> the worst laptops I've ever used.  When I took it to our helpdesk a few
> months ago one of the lead guys looked at it and said "Oh, one of the
> early T60s.  Yeah, we've had problems with those".  Apparently the first
> batch of Lenovo-made T60s are of very poor quality and the next run wasn't
> much better.  A coworker has a T60p that runs SuSe now and he said he's
> had driver and stability problems.  I hope they get better as I love the
> idea of a *NIX-based laptop, though at this point I would much rather have
> a Macbook.
>
> -Jason
>
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