openSUSE 10.2 on the IBM T41 ThinkPad
At the end of the last post , I was at the place of saying that Linux Mint worked better on my personal X30 because.. well.. it was personal. I didn't use it for work things. I used it like I would my Mac. And Linux Mint 2.0 worked great on it for that.
This was not the same thing as saying openSUSE 10.2 was bad in some way, and out there in Google Space there are plenty of glowing 10.2 user experiences. If you read the comments at the end of my post, there was umbrage taken with my review. I blame the ThinkPad X30 because it is there and defenseless, and it doesn't read my weblog.
My IBM ThinkPad T41 on the other hand is my primary work computer. It goes to the trade shows, it runs VMware, and most importantly, it is where I read my email and calendar. With Evolution. Off an MS Exchange 2003 server. The last Distro I had running on the T41 that was working well for this is Fedora Core 6, fully and daily patched. The user interface I have to use is KDE because Evolution won't work right under Gnome. It won't let me enter my password for Evolution when I am running Gnome. Kinda of important, that whole password entering thing.
I used past tense there because the comments on the last post made me decide to put openSUSE 10.2 on the T41 on my first day of vacation. You know. Vacation. Where you go home and spend eight or ten hours testing Linux and writing about it.
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