[ale] Distro Search for Thinkpad R40

[Greg Canter]

Have you considered OpenBSD ????  I have yet to find a machine it did not
run on and it runs fine on my IBM 390E ThinkPad.  Less current features than
Linux, but more stable and more documented.  Gnome and KDE are in the
packages and probably 90% of what Linux offers also is available.

Just a thought.

Greg


On 5/24/08 9:57 AM, "Marc Ferguson" <mferguson at digitalalias.net> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Thompson Freeman
> <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net> wrote:
>> On 05/23/2008 08:15:07 PM, Marc Ferguson wrote:
>>> > Hi All,
>>> >
>>> > I hope I don't get flak for this, but I'm looking for a distro to put
>>> > on my
>>> > IBM ThankPad R40.  It has an ATI video card, 40BG Harddrive, 15"
>>> > monitor
>>> > with max resolution at 1024x768.  I tried OpenSUSE 10, but I didn't
>>> > like it
>>> > so much.  I've done some searching and it's a toss up between Debian,
>>> > Gentoo, and Mandriva.  If anyone has any suggestions - I'd love to
>>> > hear it.
>>> > Thanks.
>>> >
>> 
>> Well, on my ancient ThinkPad I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 quite nicely.
> 
> I tried Ubuntu 7.10 and also 8.04.  I'm having an issue with the CD freezing
> up in the menu.  After it boots it gives me options to run the LiveCD, Check
> the CD, etc.  When I press ENTER it freezes up.  I posted on Ubuntu's forum
> and someone mentioned something about:
> 
> noapic nolapic 
> 
> I'll have to search that up, but I don't know what that is.  I did install
> OpenSUSE , one time, so the CD drive isn't broken.
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