I recently purchased a Lenovo X60s to run Linux because my R200’s keyboard died (due to child abuse), and its only 60GB disk was getting cramped.
General impressions: Great laptop. Light, bright screen. Physically smaller than most of the other ultraportables. Very good Linux support.
Pros:
- light weight
- for once, pretty much everything works out-of-the box with current Linux (Fedora Core 6)
Cons:
- the Intel IPW3956 wireless requires non-free drivers (install hassle on FC6)
- have to pay for Windows
Machine stats for the X60s: see the very good Thinkwiki X60s page.
My only caveat: by default, after resume, the screen is stuck blank. The computer is on and working fine, but no video, and no easy tricks (like toggling virtual terminals) help. Fix: add acpi_sleep=s3_bios to your grub boot parameters. Details at thinkwiki.
Update: With Fedora 7 this fix no longer fixes things. The F7 kernel suspend/resume doesn’t work, as documented in Fedora’s bugzilla bug #243759. My work-around is to roll back to the latest FC6 kernel, as documented there.
FreeBSD
To date I have no reports about FreeBSD on this box. Let me know if you get it working.