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-----Original Message-----
From: John Mellor <john.mellor(a)gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 1, 2021 2:50 PM
To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: Fedora 34 Works on a T500
Kudos to the Fedora 34 and Gnome teams!!!
My Lenovo Thinkpad T500 runs Linux very well. Its a beat-up, 12-year-old, well-equipped
dual-core laptop with 8GB ram, a Core2 Duo cpu with an AMD Rv635 gpu. Its a good machine
for meetings, as it is quite rugged and mostly survives being dropped, coffee spills, etc.
Best of all, its highly secure with hardware that is not subject to the problems related
to later-generation Intel processor design faults, etc.
Fedora 24 through 32 just worked on this laptop. Updates were almost seamless, and all
was good.
Early Fedora 33 was a big disappointment, as it had serious font issues in the message
dropdowns and other places that made it semi-unusable, and with later updates it would not
even show a Gnome screen. I reinstalled it several times to confirm that the hardware was
ok. I could never find any logs detailing why it didn't work, so I switched to
installing Ubuntu 20.10 as working much more correctly on this hardware with the same
version of Gnome.
Last week I did a fresh install of Fedora 34 pre-beta, and it just worked. It continues
to work with the hundreds of updates that are being pushed. Fedora is back. Thanks!
-----Original Message-----
Hi,
The ${SUBJECT} Surprised me.
Long, long time ago, i was part of the team that did the porting of Linux onto the T500.
However, that was abt 20 years ago, and the target was the HP T500 with a couple of
PARISC CPU's.
I hope your machine consumes less electricity :-)
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