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ThinkPads are Great

After a chain of exams, I finally got the time to play with my new toy, a ThinkPad T61p. Originally came with Vista home since it was the cheapest option... I booted to it only once to make sure I had the hardware I ordered and they were all functioning. Once verified I popped the Fedora 7 Linux installation and out goes Vista.

Compared to my previous experience with Linux on Laptops, I was expecting a world of pain specially for the wireless, bluetooth and graphics... but I was surprised when I got everything working in a matter of few minutes, all had ready made rpm packages with the drivers and required no configuration at all. I am definite that if I were to set up these two in windows xp or vista, I would have definitely spent more time (at least clicking next over and over for the installations).

Other than the usual core hardware, the coolest features I was not expecting initially to be very useful were the Biometric fingerprint reader and the HDAPS (Hard Drive Active Protection System). Swiping the finger to log in has been long done, but what I didn't know is I can now swipe to finger where ever I needed super user access (simply typing "su" in the command line and swiping the finger granted access). The PAM system which many applications are starting to use all

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I'm Janitha, a Computer Engineer and Technology Enthusiast living in Houston, Texas. My interests include Technology, Sciences, Photography, Startups, and everything new and innovative. Currently I am the Tech Lead and Founder at Picsna.

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