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Wally Balljacker
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by Wally Balljacker » Wed May 31, 2006 1:02 am
StoneChucker wrote:If all goes as expected, I'll be purchasing a Levono Z60m Thinkpad
Model 2529E6U.
Looking forward to putting Slackware or Kubuntu on it.
Okay - I got the PC on Tuesday morning, and my question to all of you is, what distro do you recommend?
I've downloaded the current Debian Stable DVDs, a copy of RR4 Linux, and the latest SUSE CDs.
I'm up for the challenge - WindowsXP will not last long on this notebook.
Looks like today's your lucky day. I happened upon this Gentoo guide for installing and configuring a ThinkPad Z60M notebook. You should be able to apply this to any distro, but if your looking for a challenge, give Gentoo a try.
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_IBM_ThinkPad_Z60M
Debian guide I found:
http://www.theiling.de/z60m.html
Great resource I use for my own ThinkPad -
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:Z60m
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thetza
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by thetza » Wed May 31, 2006 4:38 am
thinkpads are fairly linux-friendly (or at least they were when IBM made them). Therefore any mainstream distro from suse to gentoo to the debian spawns should be fine. go nuts.
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Gomer_X
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by Gomer_X » Wed May 31, 2006 8:45 am
StoneChucker wrote:
Okay - I got the PC on Tuesday morning, and my question to all of you is, what distro do you recommend?
I've downloaded the current Debian Stable DVDs, a copy of RR4 Linux, and the latest SUSE CDs.
What do you want? There is no one best distro. I like Fedora and FC5 has excellent laptop support, but it's a bit close to the edge for some people. I've heard Ubuntu is good on laptops as well. Do you like Gnome or KDE? Do you want something stable or cutting edge?
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StoneChucker
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by StoneChucker » Wed May 31, 2006 9:44 pm
I've used SuSE and Slackware most recently, and have enjoyed each of them. I've used mainly the KDE interface, but I have also experimented with Fluxbox, and do like it, when I can get the menu configured correctly.
Stable would be wonderful, but I'm not afriad to work with something a little more recent.
I may try the latest SuSE distro first, but if there are any suggestions that sound like what I have listed above, I'm willing to try them out also.
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Gomer_X
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by Gomer_X » Thu Jun 01, 2006 8:24 am
StoneChucker wrote:I may try the latest SuSE distro first, but if there are any suggestions that sound like what I have listed above, I'm willing to try them out also.
Sounds like SUSE is a good option. There have been problems with the new package manager on 10.1, but it's the type of thing that should sort itself out pretty quickly.
If I could tolerate KDE, I'd probably go with SUSE.
