[CentOS] CentOS 5 on a Thinkpad T60 laptop

Wed Feb 16 18:04:00 UTC 2011
Roger K. Wells <ROGER.K.WELLS at saic.com>

On 02/16/2011 12:30 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
> At Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:02:57 -0500 CentOS mailing list<centos at centos.org>  wrote:
>
>> 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.
>> <snip>
>>> I would be grateful if people having used CentOS on this model could
>>> share their experience (good or bad).
>> Oddly enough, I asked on another techie mailing list I'm on just last week
>> or so, for someone I know considering a laptop, and a T60 was greatly
>> approved of.
> I have CentOS 5.5 (i386) running happily on an X31 Thinkpad.  IBM
> laptops are really good laptops.
>
I also have run Centos 5.5 on an X31 and moved to a X200.  The T60 fits 
in between
these in the Thinkpad evolution, IIRC.  It was fine on both and
I had no trouble with wireless on either.  The wireless concern was 
mentioned in another
response on this thread.

good luck,
roger wells
>>             mark
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