arstechnica.com — Lenovo and Novell have announced that select ThinkPads will be available with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 preinstalled, beginning in the fourth quarter. Lenovo will be supplying both hardware and OS support.
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potterboyAug 6, 2007
X61t running linux, please? Might give me reason to upgrade my T42.
rmxzAug 6, 2007
The old IBM Thinkpads with Linux pre-installed by IBM in '04 were awesome: <a class="user" href="http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/04/0135236">http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/04/0135236</a>Haven't tried one since then.
shadowmanAug 6, 2007
This is more great news for GNU/Linux. SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 is awesome. It wouldn't surprise me if HP offered SLED 10 preinstalled soon too.
zerooooooooooooAug 6, 2007
My friend has an x60 with Ubuntu installed. According to him, you lose a lot of the tablet functionality by switching from Windows. I type happily on my T61 (with XP).
schestowitzAug 6, 2007
How much money does Microsoft make from sales of such laptops (never mind the O/S!)? Lenovo already certifies Fedora and Ubuntu for the series. Hopefully they will preload these too (no 'Microsoft tax').Mark Shuttleworth (yesterday):"That's extortion and we should call it what it is," he said. "To say, as Ballmer did, that there is undisclosed balance sheet liability, that's just extortion and we should refuse to get drawn into that game.Also see:<a class="user" href="http://mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=6672">http://mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=6672</a>Shuttleworth calls Microsoft's actions "racketerring".Also see:“I’m thinking of hitting the OEMs harder than in the past with anti-Linux. … they should do a delicate dance” –Joachim Kempin, Microsoft OEM Chief“We should whack them [Dell over Linux dealings], we should make sure they understand our value.” –Paul Flessner, Senior Vice President, Server Applications UnitLenovo offered Linux preinstalls last year, but probably changed its mind after Microsoft had threatened to retaliate.
kozoAug 6, 2007
This should have been news like 2 years ago. I used to work for a company that test the then IBM Thinkpads and now Lenovo using SuSE Linux.
martalliAug 7, 2007
Absolutely right. All the distros are essentially running ont he same kernel. If the hardware is running GPL drivers, then any recent distro will work just fine.