[OT] Recommendation for ThinkPad

[Charlie McVeigh]

On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 09:59 -0500, Travis Fraser wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have been needing a new laptop, and the ThinkPads seem to have good
> Linux support. I am leaning toward a T42 with the ATI radeon graphics
> card. Does anybody know of things that will/won't work on the T42?

I have been running FC3 on a T42 (2378FZU) since April of this year.  I
am running Apache, Tomcat, MySQL, PHP, Eclipse, and VMware all without
any problems.  Wireless networking works great with NetworkManger
installed.  If you ever need to use dial-up at full speed you will have
to spend $14 or so for the Linuxant modem driver.  This is the third
Thinkpad that I have owned and I must say that I continue to be amazed
at how tough and reliable the are.  All in all a T42 should be a good
choice for Linux.

If you get a T42 don't hesitate to ask for help setting it up.

Charlie