[CentOS] CentOS 5 on a Thinkpad T60 laptop

Wed Feb 16 17:08:22 UTC 2011
Always Learning <centos at g7.u22.net>

On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 15:52 +0100, Mathieu Baudier wrote:

> I'm considering buying a second-hand Thinkpad T60 (with 2 GB RAM), as
> a secondary laptop in order to run CentOS 5 on the field.

One thing you might, or happily might not, have difficulties with is the
wifi driver.  Most drivers are available from various sources.

C5 is based on kernel 2.6.18. More wifi drivers were added to kernel
2.6.27, I think.  C6 will be based on kernel 2.6.34, I believe.

If you have difficulties with wifi, you'll get help here.

Centos is a splendid choice for laptop reliability. I have it on a
netbook and on a laptop. Its so much better, for me certainly, than
Windoze.


With best regards,

Paul.
England,
EU.