IBM X41 Tablet with Linux?

Alright, so I'm probably going to pickup a used X41 tablet soon, and I want to know if anyone has any experience with it, and how well supported is it under linux?

Thanks,
Thomas

 

haven't had any experience myself..and don't know which distro u plan on putting on it..but after doing some googling i found a few things that may help: and i'm sure if u do some of your own googling u can find something to suit what u need
Installing Ubuntu 9.04 on a IBM X41 tablet | Linux.com

Linux on the Thinkpad X41 Tablet [Alex Ramirez Home Page]
Category:X41 Tablet - ThinkWiki

 

I've done a fair amount of googling but haven't turned up many recent results or anything, and as for distro, it shouldn't matter to much. Besides, probably going to put a custom version of my distro on there( RelaxOS). Might release that version as well if I iron out all of the issues

 

i guess the only thing to do then is to try it out and see what results you get.. good luck with your release
keep us posted

 

Everything should work fine, but to be honest the speeds I experienced weren't something I expected. On Linux the x41 feels like a turtle, on windows it will feels like a slug. I suggest you go for something a little more powerful or at least something that doesn't have a proprietary hard-drive so it'll be easier to upgrade. If you can afford it I heard the x300 was a good notebook.

 

My budget is about 150 bucks . Also, it actually isn't much slower than my current notebook, and I plan on building a custom edition of my distro for tablets/notebooks(low resource usage is a main point).

I'm ordering it tonight:
IBM X41 Tablet
Pentium M 1.6Ghz
1GB RAM
60GB HDD

 

I ran ubuntu (8.??) on my x31 a couple years ago and it ran fine.

 

What DEs are you guys with older laptops running? I tried LXDE on my T41 and although I was so psyched about the potential of it, I find it buggy as heck.

Imho, it needs tons of work and the team working on it appears to be needing more resources and/or people.

I am now wondering if xfce is any good or whether Gnome would run okay.

I've tried KDE 4 before but it wasn't at 4.4 then. I am not sure whether it'd be too bloated but I suspect so. I like KDE generally and use it for the desktop but I figure it's been bloated since 3.5. Anyway, for a Centrino M cpu, 2GB of DDR RAM and an older video card (RV250 aka Radeon Mobility 9000), I was wanting a DE with a smaller footprint to at least make it seem as though my laptop was more snappy.

I'm discouraged with LXDE; I hope things improve with it.