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

[Jay Vollmer]

On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:51:49 -0400
  Dan Maranville <likuidkewl@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> Obviously no testing branches....
> 
> I assume, in your opinion, you must have the nVidia drivers? I use
> Ubuntu 9.04 on my Desktop with a nVidia card without the binary blob
> and it works and looks fine. Sure there is no Compiz and the like, 
>but
> I Can deal.
> 
> On my R61 without nVidia(Intel) I use 9.04x64 and it just works, 
>which
> is a nice switch from say Centos.  I thought of using i386 instead 
>but
> didn't want to install the PAE kernel to get the full 4GB.
> 
> So, IMO try OpenSuse <--- Support should be good(think T61p) and
> Ubuntu. If Ubuntu is not all that and a bag of chips, then try an
> offshoot like Mint.

OpenSUSE does work well on the T61p.  I've had no problems with mine 
+nVidia.
Compiz works very well.

JAY VOLLMER
JE SUIS UN REVOLUTIONNAIRE!