Thinkpad, Thinkpad, Thinkpad

[Stephen J. Smoogen]

On 3/28/06, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 15:24 -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > Joe Desbonnet <jdesbonnet at gmail.com>:
> > > The Thinkpad seems to be cropping up alot in bug reports...
> >
> > No surprise there.  It's the elite laptop, and has been since it
> > displaced the Sony VAIOs some time back.  I don't think I've met a
> > Linux hacker in the last five years who carried anything else for
> > reasons other than costs-too-much.
> >
> > >                                                     after a
> > > lot of sweat and tears I have regained most of my Thinkpad's
> > > functionality since the upgrade (actually a fresh install repeated
> > > several times).
> >
> > Have you managed to get suspend/resume to work reliably?  On my X40
> > the situation is bad...
> >
> > > Another solution which will probably take too much work: make some
> > > sort of LiveCD with sufficient functionality to test all the hardware
> > > compatibility.
> >
> > If anyone out there does this, I'm willing to test it and send in prompt
> > and detailed bug reports.
> > --
>
> We have a live CD creation tool called Kadischi and some live CD's
> floating around in fedora-livecd list. Details at
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kadischi/.
>
> We also have a project http://pootypedia.sourceforge.net/ which got
> sponsored by Fedora as part of Google's SOC. Unfortunately pootypedia is
> based on Kudzu while we are moving to HAL instead. Someone needs to
> combine these efforts and we need more developers to take this forward.
>
>

I am not much of a developer.. but I am going to look at this.


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Stephen J Smoogen.
CSIRT/Linux System Administrator