IBM Thinkpad R51 w/ Ubuntu Linux Installed

[Albin Blaschka]

Hakim Singhji wrote:

> So again, is anyone using an IBM Thinkpad R51 with Linux installed,
> particularly Debian or Ubuntu installs? If so have you had any problems
> specific to your machine?

Hello,

I own o R40 and a friend of mine a R50, which should quite similar I 
think...

I had on my R40 Debian Sarge (at this time still testing) with only some 
minor glitches and since May 2004 (plus the friend with the R50) Ubuntu 
on it without problems, with dual boot (WinXP).

The only thing I did was to wipe of the "Predesktop-Area" and ordered 
the Recovery CDs (just to be on the safe side) from IBM which was 
absolutely no problem - but nowadays I am quite sure I don't need them 
anymore... :-)

So, to put it short: Linux on Thinkpad is a very good choice - it just 
works (tm) at least for me ;-) With Breezy even suspend to disk...

Albin




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