Hardware specification:
Thinkpad X201 3626 CTO
Qualcomm Gobi 2000 WWAN with GPS
SAMSUNG 830 SSD 128G
SAMSUNG DDR3 1600 4G*2
No Touchpad

1, USB LiveCD Fedora 16 made by windows method
Win 32 Image Writer: https://launchpad.net/win32-image-writer/+download
Please note it will erase the original partition of the disk and made the remaining spaces unavailable.

2, Track Point Setting

http://hi.baidu.com/onlylkb99/blog/item/af2f4add69392dc38c1029f4.html

create 20-trackpoint.conf in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
create 99-trackpoint.rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/

3, Qualcomm Gobi 2000 WWAN with GPS
3G

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Qualcomm_Gobi_2000

http://thinkpad-wiki.org/Qualcomm_Gobi_2000_unter_Linux_installieren

Simply install the gobi_loader after setting up the firmware would do the job.

4, VirtualBox

http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/install-virtualbox-with-yum-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel/

reinstall bash when installing extension package

5, Miscellaneous
Adobe Reader
ibus-sunpinyin
MATLAB: MATLAB R2011b (make the launcher file matlab.desktop)

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MATLAB

Fortran, C, C++ IDE: Eclipse IDE for Parallel Application Developers
Nixnote: As Evernote

6, Autostart
/etc/xdg/autostart