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Installing Debian on the W541

The decade-old Lenovo ThinkPad W541 has a new operating system.

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Posted on December 24, 2025December 24, 2025Categories Computing, ThinkPad W541Tags Debian, KDE, KDE Plasma, lenovo, linux, Linux Mint, operating system, thinkpad, w541

Five months of OpenIndiana: Thoughts

After five months of “daily driving” OpenIndiana Hipster, I have been adjusting to using the descendant of Ma Bell’s operating system — Unix System V.

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Posted on March 23, 2025Categories Computing, ThinkPad W541Tags GIMP, OpenIndiana, operating system, System V, ThinkPad W541, unix

Reviving the W541 with OpenIndiana

My third Lenovo ThinkPad has a new lease on life.

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Posted on December 24, 2024December 28, 2024Categories Computing, ThinkPad W541Tags *nix, Illumos, OpenIndiana, operating system, thinkpad, unix, w541