[ltp] Re: Which distro for R51?

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 25 Mar 2016 16:46:02 -0300


On Fri, 25 Mar 2016, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I was happy with running Debian 6 on my ancient Thinkpad R51 but now
> > Debian 6 is outdated. Which distro can be recommended to use now?
> 
> I use Debian testing on my Thinkpad X30, so I can't see any reason why
> it wouldn't run just fine on an R51.

Well, all my laptop work is done on a ThinkPad T43 running Debian stable
(and a custom kernel, but that's unimportant).

I even use KDE4 on that T43, although it certainly would be a lot more
snappy using lxde or xfce.

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