New to OpenSuse & SUSE (Lenovo/IBM Thinkpad R61 [X/T - 61 & 61p]

[glistwan]

@fspkwon

This laptop is certified, and the first thing I learned to do before switching was build the kernel, which obviously I’ll be using Suse to do that.
I personally like the fact that Suse instills a different system than usual which is either less of a choice or the amount of effort you put into the system.
I hope to see a good future with it, and plan to have a chroot of Fedora also for whatever it is I decide to do, or decide to take on.
Thanks! It’s a great system, and the Laptop is Certified Compatible, and with effort towards configuration in specifics to fan-speed, performance, audio&video it becomes even better in performing and would seemingly be even more compatible in terms of hardware lifespan and everything in aspects of which Linux is openly advertised as.

If you’re using openSUSE you don’t need to build the kernel. You can get a very recent kernel from the kernel stable repository :
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable/standard/

Just install it from packages and don’t waste your time on compiling/recompiling