[ltp] Preferred distro for Thinkpads?

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Senectus . wrote:

> On 8/14/05, Michelle Klein-Hass <msgeek@dslextreme.com> wrote:
>
>> Ubuntu was a spectacular failure on my 600x. I tried installing
>> it yesterday and it froze at the GNOME desktop before the icons
>> and menus popped up. However, Knoppix booted the system just
>> fine, and Debian Sarge has been sweet on my 600e.
>>
>> Another possibility is SuSE. SuSE has been rumored to work on
>> ThinkPads right out of the box, and it has been the distro IBM
>> has put on the very few ThinkPads they have shipped with Linux.
>> SuSE has gone the way of Fedora and released a "community"
>> version recently. You might want to consider that.
>
> Ubuntu is a roaring success on my A31p, as was Suse. Also I believe
> that for a while there Suse was _certified_ to work with
> Thinkpads..
>
Whether its 'certified' is a moot point.  Nearly all of the time if
you can get it to work in one distro its possible in another.  I
prefer Gentoo but thats my solely my opinion.
~Scott
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