On Sun, 17 Oct 2010, Robert Munro wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Salvage resellers are selling some refurbished IBM Thinkpad T41 and > T42 notebooks on Ebay, which seem to be selling for a little more > than $100 at auction. These systems have 1.6GHz Pentium M CPUs, > 512MB of RAM and 20GB or 40GB hard drives, 14-inch SVGA 1024x768 > screens, CD/DVD-writers and built-in 56K modems, ethernet NICs, etc. > Just big screen netbooks. > > Is anyone running Linux successfully on one of these older IBM > Thinkpad models? I'll be interested to hear about any experiences > and problems.
Until my T41's fan died recently, I'd run both CentOS and Ubuntu on it with no real problems. I never used the modem, so I don't know whether it works under Linux or not. Power management was ok but not great. -- Paul Heinlein <> [email protected] <> http://www.madboa.com/ _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
