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Has anyone here installed Fedora Core 8 on their T42 (or other T series thinkpads)? I am currently using Ubuntu 7.10 but am curious as to how FC8 runs. Please list any issues you are having if you reply.

No hesitation for me... Fedora is much better and faster than ubuntu ! I use Feodra 7 on my R52 with no problemes.

Morover, it's the first distro that allowed me to compile tp_smapi modules ! And very fast !

I haven't tried Feodra 8 but i will as soon as my fan control program will work !

FC8 have a live CD?
That should give you a clue how it would match up.

I was just running Mandriva 08 on my R40.
That didn't run to bad and found everything on install.

I think F8 has a live CD. I installed Fedora 7 Moonshine from a live cd. The install was very fast ! Faster than ubuntu.

I think there is a live cd.

I downloaded the live cd and have been trying it out. I'm not sure it's worth switching. Fedora 8 does look nice though.

They both use Gnome desktop so will look essentially identical. The main difference is package management and their founding philosophies, which determine which packages they include in their own repositories.

I have F8 on my T60, but have tried Ubuntu on my 600X. Ubuntu automatically loaded the closed source driver for my WiFi card, which was nice. It's a bit more work with Fedora, but I know Fedora very well and plan to stick with it.

I am dual booting Windows XP and Fedora 8 on my T30. It works fine except I can't get compiz to start everytime I log in. I can enable it once logged in though and then it's buttery smooth (even on my radeon 7500)

I tried F8 yesterday but it doesn't work so well as F7... No sleep and suspend to disk, can't install ati fglrx driver correctly and other things like this...
I came back to F7wich works perfectly on my computer....

I will retry in a few months !

I am very much satisfied with F8 on my thinkpad T20. I see improvements over earlier versions. May be it is more memory consuming. With 256M RAM it does a lot of swap. You need definitely at least 512M. Both suspension and hibernation work well, after wake up network is on again. I use wifi based on atheros chipset so madwifi does everything. I run also F8 on my ASUS with intel core duo and nvidia graphics right from the first boot. I strongly suggest to try first CD live, install and then yum the other stuff. I case of troubles refer to: http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f8.html

I have it running on my T43...the only problems I am having is with WPA-encrypted networks...Other than that, it runs smooth