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author: 
  email: rafl@fsfe.org
  keyid: 742f2a428e635a5e
  name: Florian Ragwitz
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comments: []

date: 2005-07-05T15:59:41Z
guid: 1bac3bff-fcc3-4a01-bf99-da54c94e2cd1
modified: 2005-07-05T15:59:41Z
raw: "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\n=pod\n\nSome days ago my laptop, an iBook G4, which wasn't even one and a half year\nold, croaked. Due the fact that I wanted to have a working laptop again as soon\nas possible I decided to buy a new one and ordered an IBM ThinkPad X41.\n\nIt's smaller, less weighty and a much smarter than the old iBook. Well, it was\na bit tricky to get Debian installed because the debian-installer doesn't\nsupport the hardware completely, but with using the Ubuntu netboot image it was\neasy to bootstrap a pure Debian system.\n\nThe hardware is well supported by the Linux kernel. Only suspend doesn't work\nwell at the moment. It's going to sleep well, but after waking up some SCSI\nerrors occur. This is because SATA suspend is currently broken, but that fill\nbe fixed with one of the next versions, so I'll be patient.\n\n=cut\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----\nVersion: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)\n\niD8DBQFGCP+ndC8qQo5jWl4RAvF2AJ9sVTd2xpSKDKFrnVjkRYS61WQZTwCfaOt8\nKNfPWJHjhfImZomylDn6b1s=\n=SoCe\n-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----\n"
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summary: " Some days ago my laptop, an iBook G4, which …"
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text: "    Some days ago my laptop, an iBook G4, which wasn't even one and a\n    half year old, croaked. Due the fact that I wanted to have a working\n    laptop again as soon as possible I decided to buy a new one and\n    ordered an IBM ThinkPad X41.\n\n    It's smaller, less weighty and a much smarter than the old iBook.\n    Well, it was a bit tricky to get Debian installed because the de-\n    bian-installer doesn't support the hardware completely, but with\n    using the Ubuntu netboot image it was easy to bootstrap a pure De-\n    bian system.\n\n    The hardware is well supported by the Linux kernel. Only suspend\n    doesn't work well at the moment. It's going to sleep well, but after\n    waking up some SCSI errors occur. This is because SATA suspend is\n    currently broken, but that fill be fixed with one of the next ver-\n    sions, so I'll be patient.\n"
title: iBook--; X41++;
type: pod
uri: http://perldition.org/articles/iBook--%3B%20X41%2B%2B%3B.pod
xhtml: "<div class=\"pod\">\n<p>Some days ago my laptop, an iBook G4, which wasn't even one and a half year\nold, croaked. Due the fact that I wanted to have a working laptop again as soon\nas possible I decided to buy a new one and ordered an IBM ThinkPad X41.</p>\n<p>It's smaller, less weighty and a much smarter than the old iBook. Well, it was\na bit tricky to get Debian installed because the debian-installer doesn't\nsupport the hardware completely, but with using the Ubuntu netboot image it was\neasy to bootstrap a pure Debian system.</p>\n<p>The hardware is well supported by the Linux kernel. Only suspend doesn't work\nwell at the moment. It's going to sleep well, but after waking up some SCSI\nerrors occur. This is because SATA suspend is currently broken, but that fill\nbe fixed with one of the next versions, so I'll be patient.</p>\n\n\n</div>"