Not that i have any experience with the new thinkpads, but i have an old one p75. i think the most troubling thing when i was trying to put a linux on it, (aside from getting the external pcmcia cdrom to work, which needed some tinkering) was, for example, power saving profiles, sleep, hibernation, screen to monitor switch, and many little features like if you switch to monitor don't go to sleep, etc.. that are already in the winbox software. so i suggest to check if everything work or you are willing to compromise. also, i saw that there are problems with the kernel with power saving thingies that you might need to patch up things or wait if i remember correctly, for ver 2.6
* - * - * Tzahi Fadida [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technion Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My Cool Site: HTTP://WWW.My2Nis.Com * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * WARNING TO SPAMMERS: see at http://members.lycos.co.uk/my2nis/spamwarning.html > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf >Of > Alon Weinstein > Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 12:44 AM > To: Shachar Shemesh; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Linux supported laptop anyone? > > > > I'm looking to buy a laptop that supports Linux. I'm not so picky about > > the bundled Windows XP problem, as I'm going to need a MS O$ on it > > If you have positive experience, please let me know. I'm looking for > > something mid-low end (read - cheap) > > > > I own an IBM Thinkpad T21. I installed Red Hat 7.3, Red Hat 8.0 & SuSE 8.0 > on it -- all three installations were the easiest Linux installations I > did -- the only thing I had to do was press "next" "next" "next" and that's > it. All the hardware was auto-detected, everything works great -- video, > sound, DVD, network, modem. Everything. The only thing I never did was make > the Ultrabay work (the DVD is hot swappable with a floppy drive, and I think > a module needs to be installed for the hot swapping to work correctly), but > I think it's supported, as IBM is a supporter of Linux. All Thinkpads come > with bundled Microsoft OSs (W2K/WinXP) and an installation CD containing the > OS and drivers > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
