[ltp] Again, what distro for my T61...

Pascal Wittmann linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:57:21 +0200


Petar Milin wrote:
> Hello ALL!
> I am still struggling in finding right distro for my T61. I tried 
> Mandriva and Fedora 11, but neither of the two impressed me -- many 
> smaller non-working issues. Now, I am in between Ubuntu 9.04 and 
> Debian Lenny. Thing is that I am most used to those, that is for sure. 
> But I stopped using Ubuntu since Gutsy and moved to Debian being 
> disappointed with the former. Then, when Lenny became stable, I 
> remained with testing, and it is very shaky -- things stopped working, 
> some crashed etc.
>
> Hence, ultimately, what distro would behave extra stable on my T61 
> with nvidia?
>
> Best,
> PM
I would suggest Arch Linux, on my T61 everything works fine and stable. 
Myself I haven't got a nvidia, but colleagues haven't got  problems with 
their T61+nvidia running Arch Linux.