Installing Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) on a Thinkpad T60

Features

1. Compiz Fusion 3D Desktop (eye candy)

Graphical Configuration Tool

Some Thinkpad T60s laptops ship with ATI video cards. Previously Ubtuntu 7.04 Open Source video drivers could be graphically configured with a minimal utility that allowed to choose a single resolution. However, users could be compelled to use the non-free ATI video driver (Fglrx) because ATI shipped a more featureful utility, Catalyst Control Center. Gusty Gibbon now ships a more fully-featured utility, making the Open Source video drivers a more attractive choice.

Installation

Installation of Gutsy Gibbon on the ThinkPad T60 2623KFU went without a hitch. I was able to resize an existing ext3 partition and perform a new install of Ubuntu 7.10 without removing Feisty Fawn. If you are resizing or installing Gutsy Gibbon on a clean partition while maintaining other operating system partitions, I would suggest reinstalling the Grub boot loader so a fresh partition is created with Gutsy Gibbon and other existing OSes like Feisty Fawn or Fedora.

Notes

Default Non-free Drivers

The Intel PRO 3945ABG wireless network card requires drivers in the Restricted Repository which are non-free.

References

• Installing Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) on a ThinkPad T60