[arch-general] Arch Linux
Has anyone tried Arch Linux on their thinkpad? I just want to know how fast it is. I don't like the long boot that is found in Ubuntu and many other distro. Josef Tupag best humidifiers <http://thebesthumidifiers.com>
I've been running it on my X61 for a while now. For the most part? I'm way happy. it's pretty fast, and reliable. However, I have had some issues with my wireless card but that's been acting up for years without me being able to figure out what the problem is (in windows and in linux). All in all however i'd say go for it. Of course the speed of the boot and how quickly your system runs really depends on what you install. a bare-bones system will run much faster with one that has gnome thrown on it because gnome is heavier than nothing :P. -Josh On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Josef Tupag <joseftupag@gmail.com> wrote:
Has anyone tried Arch Linux on their thinkpad? I just want to know how fast it is. I don't like the long boot that is found in Ubuntu and many other distro.
Josef Tupag best humidifiers <http://thebesthumidifiers.com>
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:12:30PM +0300, Josef Tupag wrote:
Has anyone tried Arch Linux on their thinkpad? I just want to know how fast it is. I don't like the long boot that is found in Ubuntu and many other distro.
I'm writing this on an R51. It has seen Suse, Fedora and finally Arch, and it never booted as fast as it does now. Ciao, -- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte !
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:12:30 +0300, Josef Tupag <joseftupag@gmail.com> wrote:
Has anyone tried Arch Linux on their thinkpad? I just want to know how fast it is. I don't like the long boot that is found in Ubuntu and many other distro.
Using Arch on my R61 since I bought it, never used anything else on it. Boot is very fast, but since suspend-to-ram works very well (running "s2ram -f -a 2"), I don't really care about boot time :) Regards, -- Thomas/Schnouki
Suspend to disk works really well on my X61, maybe it's just the x31 that had issues. -Josh On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Thomas Jost <schnouki@schnouki.net> wrote:
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:12:30 +0300, Josef Tupag <joseftupag@gmail.com> wrote:
Has anyone tried Arch Linux on their thinkpad? I just want to know how fast it is. I don't like the long boot that is found in Ubuntu and many other distro.
Using Arch on my R61 since I bought it, never used anything else on it. Boot is very fast, but since suspend-to-ram works very well (running "s2ram -f -a 2"), I don't really care about boot time :)
Regards,
-- Thomas/Schnouki
Installed Arch on my X500 and it works amazingly well. Pretty fast and I have a lot of features working that I could never get working with OpenSUSE.
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 5:23 AM, John Holbrook <johnholbrook@gmail.com> wrote:
Installed Arch on my X500 and it works amazingly well. Pretty fast and I have a lot of features working that I could never get working with OpenSUSE.
T43P works well too, but is there a model X500 from lenovo?
Sorry. I was having a blonde moment there. T500. Not X500. I had X series servers on the brain from IBM.
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On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:12:30 +0300, Josef Tupag <joseftupag@gmail.com> wrote:
Has anyone tried Arch Linux on their thinkpad? I just want to know how fast it is. I don't like the long boot that is found in Ubuntu and many other distro.
Using Arch on my R61 since I bought it, never used anything else on it. Boot is very fast, but since suspend-to-ram works very well (running "s2ram -f -a 2"), I don't really care about boot time :)
Two years on R61 - everything works well and fast. Sometimes I run even a couple of VMs (in vbox) simultaneously without any sense of lag. Very happy with it. Cheers, Sergey
Am Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:12:30 +0300 schrieb Josef Tupag <joseftupag@gmail.com>:
Has anyone tried Arch Linux on their thinkpad? I just want to know how fast it is. I don't like the long boot that is found in Ubuntu and many other distro.
Josef Tupag best humidifiers <http://thebesthumidifiers.com>
I'm pretty happy with it on my x31. Except for suspend2disk everything works flawlessly and fast.
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:12:30PM +0300, Josef Tupag wrote:
Has anyone tried Arch Linux on their thinkpad? I just want to know how fast it is. I don't like the long boot that is found in Ubuntu and many other distro.
Josef Tupag best humidifiers <http://thebesthumidifiers.com>
I'm using Arch on my x200 since I bought it and I'm very happy with it. Except the fingerprint reader everything workds without any problems. The only thing I didn't test is suspend-to-disk because I use an encrypted disk.
I also successfully use Arch on Thinkpad X61. Sound, wifi and track point work with minimal setup. Extra keys require some tweaking. The display has a bluish tint by default, so installing a color profile might be a good idea [1]. There's a whole wiki dedicated to running Linux on Thinkpads [2]. [1]: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?p=380776&sid=44e7dd2eab24100f5fa19bce14e0db6b#p380776 [2]: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki Best, Denis.
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