[Discuss] Thinkpad T60p and Kubuntu

[Michael]

Hello all, nice to see things are working again. Congrats to the admins!

    I am waiting on delivery of a Thinkpad T60p, which I plan on putting
Kubuntu 7.10 on. This represents my long planned move away from Mandriva
towards the Ubuntu efforts. I have done a ton of research to make sure
things will go smoothly, but I always like to get the opinions and
experiences of others ... so ... what I would like to know is this;

    1. Have any of you had any experience with Thinkpads in the recent
past? I have done a lot of research to make sure that things will go
smoothly, but reality and what we learn on the intertubes are seldom the
same animal. In particular I am concerned with the ATI FireGL graphics
card ... it seems to be supported via both the vendor and a few open
source projects, but until I see it I am hesitant to believe it.

    2. Recommendations and opinions regarding VMware vs. Virtual Box vs.
Xen for use in Kubuntu to guest XP Pro. I am completely new at
virtualization, and am therefore looking for the easiest to implement
virtualization environment to run my extremely seldom used XP software.
To give some perspective on this, if it looks to be too onerous I will
instead spend my time figuring out Wine, and simply do platform testing
on my wife's system. The software I would be using most I know to be
quite functional in Wine.

    That's it. Thanks in advance for any suggestions and/or tips, and in
case anyone is wondering, I am making slow but happy progress with the
Python self-education. :-)

    Michael.