Installing Ubuntu 8.04 on my Thinkpad

Posted on | June 24, 2008 |

I had an old(er) Thinkpad T42p gathering dust, and I’ve wanted to kick Ubuntu a bit, so I chose to install the 8.04 disto on this laptop. I couldn’t believe how smooth the install went. By default, it wasn’t completely optimized, and it was certainly functional. It was cake to add my networked printer just by handing the installer the printer’s IP address.

I even found a site that lists some of the Thinkpad-specific optimizations available. So far, everything is running great. The power management doesn’t look quite as aggressive as under Windows, and I’ll live with that.

Firefox 3.0 came as part of this install, so getting online was smooth. I’ve installed a few extensions, including ScribeFire, and I can’t really tell that I’m not on my Windows box anymore. I’m using Scribefire to create and post this entry now.

I’ve got to show this to some of my friends working on Windows - this will blow their minds (in a good way)…

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