30 January 2017

The power of… old laptops? (Lenovo X200t)

After I failed to install pfSense on my old Lenovo X200t (manufactured 05/2009!), I guess I was on a roll. So after verifying that openSUSE Tumbleweed ran, I immediately blew it and its thousands of configuration options away and tried to install Chrome OS. More specifically, Neverware Cloudready Home Edition. Turns out, works like a charm. Coldstarted boot-up (with a spinning hard-drive, not a SSD!) in about 20s to the login screen, and though the pen doesn’t work, it’s a perfectly functional and fast web browsing device, running everything that the Google Chrome store has to offer very well.

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30 September 2011

First week experience with Fedora 15

Not quite as smooth as openSUSE as a desktop experience. Many things just work on SUSE – just not the touch screen – scanner, printer, etc. are all easier to configure (or so it seems for a Fedora but not Gnome newbie). Both SUSE and Ubuntu have done MUCH more integration (by default anyway) of desktop configuration settings.

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21 September 2011

Momentous change: laptop goes from openSUSE 11.4 to Fedora 15

After 12 (?) years of running laptops with (open){SUSE,SuSE}, I’ve left that distro for Fedora 15. Why? Lenovo X220t touch screen didn’t work even with a couple of hours of fiddling with openSUSE 11.4, and then found a post (lost the URL) of folks noting that Fedora 15  worked just fine for them. (trick: install xorg-x11-wacom-devel).Bonus: it is better in sync with our current research environment, which was running openSUSE (and some SLES) when self-managed, but now is managed by CAC, and runs RHEL or CentOS-based ROCKS. So the laptop being on a Redhat-compatible system helps, too.

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