I digged an old Thinkpad T410 out of my pile of Thinkpads and decided to take it to the arcade as a general use laptop for the days I don't have anything more modern on me and something needs tweaking.

[apz@some.apz.fi]

I digged an old Thinkpad T410 out of my pile of Thinkpads and decided to take it to the arcade as a general use laptop for the days I don't have anything more modern on me and something needs tweaking.

This specific machine had only 6 gigs of RAM, so I tried something new here. Normally I do these light but up-to-date setups with Debian and XFCE or IceWM, but since I've put Alpine into quite a few Docker containers, I wanted to see how it fares as a full installation.

For someone who has used Linux in the days when X configuration was done by hand, setting it up wasn't that hard, but there was also plenty of manual tweaking to get this thing behave somewhat like a modern era laptop would. I put XFCE on it, changed the networking to run under NetworkManager and so forth. Been quite a while when I've set something up from as scratch as this, but it was also a nice walk down the memory lane.

Anyway, the Thinkpad works great, Wifi and all. The whole installation with all the junk I need takes 1.4 gigabytes of disk space and 480 megabytes of RAM with full DE running. Pretty!

Isn't this thing glorious? ThinkLight and all!

#linux #alpine