Thomas Klinger wrote:
Hi, currently I have a really good offer of an used IBM Thinkpad 600X and now I'm thinking about to buy for installing and getting involved into Debian linux. Maybe later as a development workstation for my projects. Do you think it is worth to buy it? Is it difficult to get the TP running with Linux like as a normal workstation? I mean X configuration and so on. I'm currently not really familiar with Debian, but that's the reason why I want to buy this laptop, I want really to know how to handle Debian. I'm getting somehow rid of SuSE ...
I think these (and most recent-ish thinkpads) are pretty well supported. You can look at http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ibm.html and see what people say about the thinkpad 600x.
I have the 600e (earlier pentium-ii) version, which has similar hardware, and it works pretty much flawlessly. I would definitely look at the directions about the suspend-to-disk partition, so that the Fn-f7 combination works.
The only problem I have with it is that the sound is typically pretty quiet. When I'm in a machine room and trying to listen to music while I work, I can't hear very well.
regards, glen -- Glen Mehn glen@burningman.com "if you ever swallow the universe, remember to spit the dragon back out.xx. --swan