[TriLUG] Speaking of Technology

Thu May 10 20:58:02 EDT 2018

20 years ago, my Sony Vaio PCG-505GX 
(https://www.pcworld.com/article/7904/laptop-computers/article.html) was 
light, easy to install Linux on, and had suspend-to-disk.

Now, it's just a piece of clutter in my closet :-(

William Sutton

On Thu, 10 May 2018, Ken M via TriLUG wrote:

> I will share an interesting though related to all this. So last week I picked up
> a use Lenovo T440. Nothing special but I needed something other than just my
> chromebook+debian sid/croouton install for some mobile dev tasks. Some might
> remember me as the guy a while back who did the xmas demo with the real time soft
> synths from a chromebook/crouton install.
>
> Anyway so I brought the laptop home, first round did an OpenBSD install, never
> used it before other than a VM here and there recently so said why not. Seamless
> x install, everything works but tap to click (quick wscons change) and suspend
> resume. Posted to misc at openbsd and within an hour I get a reply from Theo
> himself, disable TPM and the fingerprint reader in the BIOS. Sure enough I do
> that and suspend and resume work great. I have spent almost 20 years using Linux
> and never spoke to Linus, maybe that is good thing.
>
> Anyway next I did a FreeBSD install with ZFS root. Pretty much easy, but more
> snags to figure out post install. At least I already had more FreeBSD experience
> so no big deal.
>
> The this morning I say what the heck throw Fedora 28 on it before I upgrade my
> Fedora 27 desktop in place. Easy, fast, everything works like that.
>
> The point is it is amazing to me how EASY linux has gotten since I started. I
> remember 20 floppies to install Debian on an old 386 (literally 386) to build a
> print server. Those 20 floppies for me a CLI, the end. I remember the days of
> fighting with ndiswrapper and wifi cards.
>
> Anyway it is just an interesting note to me that most of these things are so
> much better these days where Linux is a viable desktop for more than just those
> who like to tinker. Granted it still does help to choose better supported
> hardware, but still.
>
> Sorry I guess this is little off topic, but it got me thinking about years ago
> closing the lid on my Mepis laptop was a one way ticket to hard reset...
>
> Ken
>
> On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 10:10:10PM +0000, David Brain via TriLUG wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have a few laptops with various Ubuntus (16.10 - 18.10) they all suspend
>> & resume ok - sometimes my work Lenovo gets into a deeper sleep state that
>> requires a power button poke - but it resumes ok.
>> 
>> I've done nothing beyond the stock install.
>> 
>> David
>> 
>> On Thu, May 10, 2018, 5:47 PM Bill Farrow via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> > On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 5:44 PM, Matt Whitlow via TriLUG
>> > <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>> > > Bill we have no way of knowing what kind of magic you pulled to make that
>> > > happen.
>> >
>> > Neither do it, it just works (tm).
>> >
>> >
>> > Bill
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