[ale] Distro Search for Thinkpad R40

[yahoo at jimpop.com (Jim Popovitch)]

2008/5/23 Marc Ferguson <mferguson at digitalalias.net>:
> Hi All,
>
> I hope I don't get flak for this, but I'm looking for a distro to put on my
> IBM ThankPad R40.  It has an ATI video card, 40BG Harddrive, 15" monitor
> with max resolution at 1024x768.  I tried OpenSUSE 10, but I didn't like it
> so much.  I've done some searching and it's a toss up between Debian,
> Gentoo, and Mandriva.  If anyone has any suggestions - I'd love to hear it.
> Thanks.

Ubuntu Feisty should work fine (although it's nearing end of support
life cycle).  Avoid Gutsy due to ATI+Hibernation issues due to Gutsy's
change to SLUB in the kernel.

-Jim P.