[PLUG] Thinkpad, Linux

[Terry Griffin]

On Wednesday 31 December 1969 04:00 pm, stuart mathews wrote:
> Now that I have a job again, I am going to buy a new Thinkpad and dual-boot
> it with RH Linux.
>
> Wanted to check with the Linux community to see what pitfalls this newbie
> needs to be mindful of regarding Linux on laptops and dual-booting. I've
> installed RH & Mandrake on my 2 home systems with no glitches.
>
> But the Thinkpad -- and I'm not certain which model yet -- it's got all
> these optional components and things like the "Ultrabay."  I wonder if
> installing Linux is going to be painful as a result.
>
> Their budget machine runs an Intel Celeron -- is there any downside to that
> as far as Linux goes?  Does any particular distro have an advantage over
> the others in terms of running on Thinkpads?
>
> I'm be using the system for business stuff.
>
> Thanks!
>

The only complication with Ultrabay in my case is that I had to
disable Red Hat's kudzu hardware detection during boot up. It
wanted to go through the whole remove-this-add-that scenario
every  time I booted with a different Ultrabay device.

Terry