Morning after

Yeah...

And no, it's not that bad.  The T30 is doing fine.  Except for one little problem.  The infamous "Older Thinkpad + Linux = Suspend Problems".

If you only suspend for a few minutes, then resume, you're fine.  But leave it suspended for around 10 minutes, and the screen won't come back on.  You have to do a hard reboot to get back to the system.

Annoying, but not a deal killer.

So...  After some agonizing this morning, I decided to make a change.  I grabbed my Precise Puppy 5.6.1 CD, booted, and fired up Gparted.  Set the hard drive up, then let the Puppy Universal Installer do the rest for a frugal install.  Figure I'll just avoid the suspend issue altogether...

And, to be honest, Puppy's probably even lighter on this system than CrunchBang.  So, what the hey?

Right now I'm running it on the first official boot, and haven't even set up my "Save" file yet.  Take care of that in just a few.

I might do some later experiments.  I've been meaning to Give Precise 5.7.1 a try.  Maybe even monkey with Slacko, who knows?  Last night I downloaded several Puppy .ISO's on the T410s.  Haven't done any burning or installing yet, but...  We shall see...

Until I settle on something else, I'll be quite happy with Precise.  I'm comfortable with it, and it performs great.  And, much as I love #!, Puppy is...well, just a little bit brighter...

Though I really do need to reset the screen background..........