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I've installed Debian testing on my Thinkpad 560X. Spent a few days beating it around, filing a bug, installing packages piecemeal and cursing its Unixlike nature — insofar as it's as luxurious as a bare-metal Land Rover and the only comfort is what you bolt on by hand, probably including seats and suspension.

However, it is L*n*x and so can run the network card and probably the sound system. And Debian does seem at least semicoherent. I am posting from it right now, and my goodness Firefox looks odd with twm. I must investigate WiFi drivers. x11vnc is also very tempting.

(Question: I set it up with a FAT32 partition first and ext3 second. Can I use parted to merge the FAT32 space into the ext3 partition without fucking it up? Also, is there a package of laptop goodies, such as power management?)

Update: And in further happy news, my laptop's battery now appears to hold a charge! I'll be doing some reliability tests, of course ...

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[hserus.livejournal.com]

wifi drivers - take a look at http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net if you cant find linux drivers for your wifi card, but have windows drivers handy.

if gnuparted doesn't work try ranish partition manager, for your fat32 / ext3 stuff.

in fact i'd have suggested a very light install of slackware (zipslack or something similar) rather than deb*an testing.

try fluxbox for something that's slightly heavier than twm - but looks pretty good.