Ubuntu Gutsy (7.1) on a Toshiba Satellite A100-022
As holiday geek-fun I installed Ubuntu 7.1 (aka Gutsy Gibbon) on my Toshiba Satellite Laptop A100-022 (a laptop which surprisingly is difficult to find information online). It was a great pleasure for me to note that Ubuntu is the first 100% (or 99%:) laptop friendly Linux distribution. Most of laptop functionalities worked out of the box and I had to do only minor tweaks for having a production-ready development system.
As someone wrote Ubuntu has mitigated most of linux geeky edges while polishing it for the desktop. I used Linux since 1995 (Slackware 1.0) and during the years I used several distributions on servers and on desktop machines. Every distribution I have used didn’t perform progresses that I got with Ubuntu 7.1. This is the first desktop-distro that has satisfied all requirements and desiderata of a laptop mobile user (mine at least …).
Following table show functionalities working at the moment and a brief description of tweaks that I needed to do:
| Feature | Status | How |
| Video | WORKING | Out of the box |
| Audio | WORKING | Out of the box |
| CPU Frequency Scaling | WORKING | Out of the box |
| Hibernate | WORKING | Out of the box |
| Standby | NOT WORKING | Not yet tried to fix it |
| Networking (Ethernet and WiFi) | WORKING | Out of the box |
| Touchpad (with tap-scrolling features) | WORKING | Out of the box |
| LCD Brightness | WORKING | Some hack needed |
| Laptop buttons | NOT WORKING | Not yet tried to fix it |
| External Monitor | NOT TESTED YET | - |
| LID Management | WORKING | Out of the box |
| Bluetooth | WORKING | Some hack needed |
| Bluetooth PAN (for UMTS/HSDPA) | WORKING | Some hack needed |
| 3D Graphic effects | WORKING | Out of the box |
| VMWare | WORKING | Some hack needed |
