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I can't address the issue of power management, but I loaded a Linux kernel both from the recent Infomagic release and from David Hind's PCMCIA boot floppies, and had little trouble installing Linux. I didn't have to make any of the dreaded kernel mods for the floppy, nor did I need the special boot floppy that apparently was needed for prior releases. That is, the new kernel (1.2.5 and above) seems to know about ThinkPads. Windows, DOS, OS/2 Warp were already installed on the system, so I defragmented, and ran FIPS to partition in place. I admit to taking a full system backup, however, by tarring to my Sun box and creating appropriate system floppies. The HOWTO's are extremely informative. Also, if you are getting the Infomagic release, be sure to check out the Windows browser for the HOWTO's. Target installation: 755CE with 810MB drive. With PCMCIA support, Linux was able to find my (NE2000 compatible) ethernet card, so I was joyfully NFS'ing very quickly. It's a real treat to be able to cross-mount ThinkPad partitions on my Sun and vice versa. You won't be able to do this in a production shop though, because I found I had to HUP the inetd fairly regularly on disconnect and reconnect. A two-point twisted-pair connection requires a special TP cable, by the way (it's essentially a null-modem TP cable). To get the card properly initialised, it seems that I have to boot DOS first, and then do a LOADLIN. This suits me fine, because the default is that it's a standard DOS/Windows box. With IRQ rearrangement, I could probably get away with not doing this. Outstanding problems: getting 16bpp from the WD driver, no access to any MWAVE functions (including modem, SB, fax, MIDI), and no support for my Raven CD-Note PCMCIA SCSI CD-ROM. Can anyone provide any advice on any of these problems? Note that this is exactly where I'm sitting with OS/2 as well, so you can guess which one I'm going to trash. If you have problems loading Linux from your CD-ROM, but the unit is visible from one of the other systems, then it is quite convenient to load the distribution from the CD-ROM to your hard disk and install from there. It's probably faster that way too. Anyway, if you have a similar set up, I *might* be competent to answer questions. By the way, if you are going to use a ThinkPad exclusively for Linux, then I would suggest that you purchase a cheaper Pad. The nifty goodies like MWAVE/DSP just aren't usable, as far as I can see. An inconvenience yes, but I'm not bitter about it as another poster appears to be. In X, be sure to use a virtual screen (defined in XFConfig). You'll really miss the higher resolution otherwise. Overall, my 755CE performs at an almost identical clip to my Sun SS10/41. For cache intensive stuff, the 1MB cache of the 41 can't be beat, but for basic computing they are both qualitatively and quantitatively similar. Cheers, Eugene Fiume.