Thinkpad, Thinkpad, Thinkpad

[Rahul Sundaram]

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.


Rahul