[ltp] Suggested models?

[Steve Stavropoulos]

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Anthony Olszewski wrote:

> Are there Thinkpad models that are particularly good for Linux?
> 

 I think most thinkpads work pretty well with linux. I got a T41 (centrino
1.4, radeon 7500), installed fedora core 1 and everything worked great
without any additional setup (xvideo, 3d, sound, suspend/resume, irda,
full power management,...). The only thing that needs to be done by hand
is the loading of speedstep-centrino module to get the speedstep feauture
of the cpu to work (and if you also install cpufreqd you'll be more than
happy). Oh, s-video video out doesn't work, but I hope that issue will be
resolved soon.
 Very importand is the laptop to have apm support. It's the easiest to 
setup and provides enough functionality for most people...


> Is one flavor of Linux better than another?
> 

 In regard to hardware support usually the latest distro is the best, with 
the exception of Mandrake which likes so much living on the edge that many 
times falls off...