Lenovo putting SLED10 on thinkpads!!!

[a12ctic]

Yes, the rumors are true, lenovo will be making linux laptops!!! now if only i could afford a lenovo laptop

http://www.crn.com/sections/breaking...leId=191902394

[bigtomrodney]

Yeah I thought that was sweet, and particularly because it was using one of my preferred distros. Unfortunately I spied this on slashdot yesterday - http://hardware.slashdot.org/article...55244&from=rss

[a12ctic]

i dont think so, levono has been known to support linux, i bet that is just a rumour

[Cabhan]

According to the article, they will offer the laptops without Windows preinstalled, will provide support for the laptops with SLED10 installed, and will provide Linux drivers for hardware in the laptop.

That sounds pretty good to me. Not as good as having Linux preinstalled, but still pretty nice.

[a12ctic]

i heard that that sd article was just a bad case of FUD

[bidi]

From the Lenovo website:

In addition, select T60p mobile workstation models now support Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10. These new models include a select set of integrated, Linux-compatible ThinkVantage Technologies and are undergoing ISV-certification for many mission-critical design applications - putting ThinkPad on its first true path toward a mobile engineering environment.

http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/notebooks/t...ies/index.html

It's only the T-series which are going to be supporting SUSE.

[ImNeat]

Yea I read about this on cnet a few days ago. Pretty tight. Unfortunately it's only going to be the more expensive models - but hey, it's a start! Very cool that they're putting in the effort to ensure all the Lenovo "extras" work in linux.

[easuter]

i remember IBM putting RedHat linux on one of its laptop models quite a few yeras ago (1999 i think), but it didnt last long. so, Lenovo/IBM is finaly taking a second shot at it!