Mark Alford's Fedora/RedHat GNU/Linux page, for Thinkpad laptops

IBM Thinkpad T430s:
- Fedora 19. Warning: Wireless barely works!
IBM Thinkpad T42:
- Fedora 17.
- Fedora 13.
- Fedora 7. Warning: Broken firewire!
IBM Thinkpad T23:
- Fedora 17. Savage video driver needs reconfiguration; flash-plugin broken
- Fedora 10.
- Fedora 9.
- Fedora 7. Warning: Broken firewire!
- Fedora Core 5.
- Fedora Core 4. Includes Streaming windows media video (eg CNN).
- Fedora Core 2. Install from scratch onto virgin hard drive. Includes hibernation.
- Fedora Core 1
- Red Hat 8.0
- Red Hat 7.3
- Red Hat 7.2
IBM Thinkpad 600E:
- Fedora 7. Warning: Broken firewire!
- Fedora Core 4. Problems with Orinoco wireless cards. Sound not working.
- Fedora Core 3. Install from scratch onto virgin hard drive. Includes fixing the crippled neomagic driver
- Red Hat 7.3
- Red Hat 7.1
- Red Hat 6.2

yum summary: An easy way to handle RPMs and keep your system up to date.
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