portable, Best Linux for the IBM T42 Thinkpad?

Jeff wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I ordered a new IBM T42 Thinkpad today for myself, which I am planning to
> load Linux on. Is there any particular version of Linux that works best
> with the T Series IBM Thinkpad? I was thinking of loading SUSE 9.2.

I use SuSE 9.2 on my R31. Previously, I had 9.1 and Red Hat 7.3.

Greetings,

I ordered a new IBM T42 Thinkpad today for myself, which I am planning to
load Linux on. Is there any particular version of Linux that works best
with the T Series IBM Thinkpad? I was thinking of loading SUSE 9.2.

Thanks for those that respond.

Jeff

I've got Ubuntu on my T20 now, works great. Prior to that, i had
Mandrake 9 and 10 on there, which worked great too. Even tried Mepis for
a few weeks, pretty great too.


--
When you say: "I wrote a program that crashed Windows",
people just stare at you blankly and say: "Hey, I got those
with the system -- for free."
- Linus Torvalds -- (remove _eh to email)

According to
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-48NT8D.html IBM
certify Red Hat EWS 3 and SuSE 9.1 for the T42.


If 9.1 is certified I don't imagine you'd have any problem with
9.2.

Thinkpads -- especially the newer ones -- are pretty
linux-friendly as laptops go. Good choice.

Cheers,
Daniel.

James Knott < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > writes:

I'm using Fedora Core 3 on my X40 which is pretty similar to a T40, I
think. I got a DVD distribution from cheapbytes.com (was too lazy to
download it). It self-booted and auto-installed quite easily from a
USB2 external dvd drive. It was a much faster install than the
earlier multi-cd installations I'd done.