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Thinkpad function keys on SUSE Linux 9.2
If you have read my essay on running SUSE Linux 9.2 on an IBM Thinkpad T41p, you know that the Thinkpad's special function keys (like Fn+F3 for "backlight off" or Fn+F12 for "suspend to disk") don't work by default after installing SUSE Linux 9.2. They can be made to work, however, this requires quite some effort. more...

SUSE Linux 9.2 on an IBM Thinkpad T41p
I have been a happy Apple iBook user (a 12" iBook with a 600 MHz G3 CPU) for the past three years, but new requirements in my job arose and I needed a new notebook, specifically one that could run Linux well, had a decent CPU and three mouse buttons. more...