[sclug] Promoting linux

[Chris Aitken]

> On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 16:15 +0100, John Barron wrote:
> > 
> > I usually try and do both, though at the moment I don't have a 
> > functioning
> > laptop to take around with me - at some point if I get 
> round to it and find a 
> > few spare ???'s I keep thinking I must try and pick a 
> suitable second-hand 
> > one. My needs are fairly straightforward, so I don't think 
> I need a brand-new 
> > one, and I'd object in principle if the price included an 
> OS I wasn't 
> > intending to use on it.
> 
> HP have announced in the past about selling one/some/all of 
> their laptops with Linux as an option.

Or an IBM Thinkpad - Caldera used to be a buytime option, and the linux
hardware support is second to none.


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