* Lindsay Druett <lindsay(a)wired.net.nz> [2007-04-26 03:10]:
I've had no issues with either of the IBM Thinkpads I've owned... My current laptop (THINKpad R51) runs Ubuntu 7.04 very nicely. (It always ran Ubuntu straight out of the box.)
Same here: Thinkpad R51e. The only thing that doesn’t is sleep mode – at least not out of the box. I have been lazy and booting Windows mostly because wifi is a hassle in Linux (wifi-radar doesn’t want to work well and the GNOME stuff used to suck; gotta give the new network manager a shot) so I never bothered to look into whether sleep mode can be made to work. Everything else Just Works™, however. Soundcard, ATI graphics, ethernet, wifi, CD writer, all flawless. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>