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From: David Gerard <fun@thingy.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad R31 - use 4.10 or 5.3?
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Uwe Laverenz (uwe@laverenz.de) [041218 21:39]:
> Dave Horsfall wrote:

> >So, the question is: should I be running 4.10 (because I track whatever my 
> >boss uses, and my home server uses it for that reason), or should I take 
> >the plunge and max-out my ADSL line in downloading 5.3?

> You should use 5.3, it will run much better on your ThinkPad, it not 
> only supports Cardbus but also has support for ACPI, which I think is 
> quite necessary on a notebook.


Does sound work properly in 5.3 on a laptop?

I had so much trouble with FreeBSD on a laptop (an old Thinkpad 560X) that
I ended up resorting to Debian. Which works well.


- d.