[ltp] Improve Linux, win Thinkpads

[André Wyrwa]

> Whua. If that was easily possible, the distributions would do it themselfes.
> backward compatible speed increases of >50%. come on, guys. 

I'd say, use LFS, put into the boot scripts only what's really needed
for your system (and not for a hundred could-be-systems) and you are
there. ;-)
On the other hand...there are some efforts to improve the boot process.

> > Provide support for additional hardware accelerated 3D cards supported
> > under DRI.
> 
> This is the job of the hardware manufactors and not of students. Why do you 
> think are we paying server $$$$ for a single thinkpad. You guys could at leas 
> write some drivers.
> 
> > 5). Challenge: Tune Mesa for PowerPC / AltiVec. Currently, Mesa only
> > contains processor specific optimizations for SPARC and x86.
> 
> same as above.

Agreed.

André.