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5.0 - Works great (IBM Thinkpad T60)

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http://www.ubuntuhcl.org – I have used: 8.04 and 9.04 and they worked quite well on the laptop. Pretty much everything works out of the box. The only exception is the volume button in 9.04 doesn't show the OSD (on-screen display) Notification and the brightness function key doe... (Hardware)

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Hi

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Hi,

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