[ltp] Made my decision...

[Buchan Milne]

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Michelle Klein-Hass wrote:
>
> Apparently the only gotcha remaining with this machine is audio.

AFAIK it should work out-the-box if you turn off fast boot (does on my
600X).

> I am likely going to use Mandrake Linux 9.1 and upgrade to 9.2 once
> LinuxCentral.Com gets their pressed CDs out.

9.2's kernel has the thinkpad modules (plus tpctl packages), plus all
the thinkpad-specific software (tpb, tp4utils) is in contrib.

> (Yes, I know, buying the
> official disks supports Mandrake. I have a 9.1 DVD I bought from them. I
> think I'm going to wait for a while before I plunk down more money
> again, particularly if it turns out that these ads coming in 9.2 are
> more intrusive than MandrakeSoft claims they will be.

The only in-distro ad (well, ok, bookmark in the browser) hasn't changed
since 9.2rc2, and no-one complained about it then funnily enough ... The
in-installation ad just replaces one of the normal images you see during
package installation.

Regards,
Buchan

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