[ltp] Fedora on Thinkpads

[Satish Balay]

You might consider ordering the disks from http://cheapbytes.com or
http://www.linuxinstall.com. Don't know how long shipping would take.

BTW, I forgot to mention - on T40 - the touchpad doesn't work (the
last I checked was with beta 2). However I disable the touchpad in
bios - and this gets the middle mouse button for trackpoint working.

Satish

On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, James McKenzie wrote:

> Satish:
> 
> Like all of the reasons you quoted.  I have an incoming 60GB/7200 drive 
> courtesy of the Capt'n (any questions, ask off the list).  I am using RH 
> 8.0 and I did not 'enable' hibernation but surely miss it.  However, I 
> will be building a RH 8.0/Fedora Core 1 stable/Windows98SE multiboot drive.
> 
> However, I am on a SprintPCS connection (about 10KBs) and would like to 
> know if anyone in the 'sunny' state of AZ has downloaded the iso's and 
> burnt them.  I can try to get out to Tucson/Phoenix to pick them up 
> (unless you want to mail them to me.)
> 
> BTW, I've looked a Knoppix for learning Linux and like the fact that you 
> boot from the CD and it works with almost any of the filetypes out there 
> (FAT32, NTFS and ext3).
> 
> James McKenzie
> 
> Satish Balay wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Bert Haskins wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Could someone give their reasons for moving to Fedora from RedHat 8 or 9?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Well I didn't even try using RH9 on a T40. Fedora Core 1 just works.
> >I've also upped a 600E to Fedora Core 1.
> >
> >The reasons for others to do this upgrade could be:
> >
> >1. speedstep (as I've indicated in one of my previous posts)
> >2. laptop mode (where IO to disk is buffered - thus letting the disk 
> >   spin down - when on battery)
> >3. OpenGL for almost all ATI cards in thinkpads - and no X lockups with suspend/resume.
> >
> >(not crucial) 
> >
> >4. easier package management/updates using yum (every fedora mirror is useable from yum)
> >5. prelinking is done by default - so presumably applications startup faster.
> >6. newer versions of packages
> >7. The usual mp3/dvd player extras from http://rpm.livna.org (useable from yum/apt)
> >
> >More info in the release notes at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes
> >
> >Note: I use APM. Didn't really try ACPI. And I don't care for
> >hibernation - so didn't try it.
> >
> >
> >Satish
> >  
> >
> 
>