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I'll just be blunt. I think you're SOL. People were providing these types of services for FreeBSD* and Linux back in the 90s into the early, early 2000s but alm
by runjake 14y ago
I'll just be blunt. I think you're SOL. People were providing these types of services for FreeBSD* and Linux back in the 90s into the early, early 2000s but almost all of them dropped off the face of the Earth.
Your best bet seems to buy last year's or (preferably) older model of a well-supported ThinkPad. Something with mature "support".
* BSDi/Telenet/Name-Du-Jour being one example for FreeBSD systems, before their divisions died and they were bought by Wind River.
- lifeisstillgood 14y agoShit out of luck? It seems an odd ecosystem - companies selling pc components must see the writing on the wall. Windows no longer fits all sizes, it's out ofthe mobile / tablet race, it's nearly out of the corporate desktop space (headless Linux running a web browser, people complain give em an ipad) and so which os is going to provide growth? Apple won't let the oems into it's patch, especially with their super tight manufacturing. Never mind - two laptops, github and tarsnap and regular tests of the backup process.
- runjake 14y agoSounds nice, but it's been demonstrated there isn't a profitable business reason to do so. I'm still bitter about the FreeBSD/BSDi/Telenet thing.