Re: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61
On Wed January 9 2008 13:51:21 Jimmy Wu wrote:
> The reasons I don't want Vista are as follows:
> (1) Microsoft claims even the Home Basic needs "20 GB hard drive with
> at least 15 GB of available space" (see
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/systemrequi
>rements.mspx)
You might want to make the recovery CDs and save the recovery partition.
In this sad world, being able to restore/reinstall Vista will dramatically
improve resale value when you replace the laptop in a few years.
> Also, do any of you use the fingerprint reader? That is one thing I
> am interested in / curious about.
Thinkwiki says it works. I haven't got around to it yet in Linux.
(Vista fingerprinter reader support worked out of the box but
Vista is ugly in so many ways.)
--Mike Bird
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