[Gslug-general] Lenovo and Linux

[Jarod Wilson]

On Sun, 2008-12-14 at 23:21 -0800, Conrad Meyer wrote:
> On Sunday 14 December 2008 11:14:58 pm Donald G wrote:
> > Does anyone know if Lenovo is using linux on their notebook machines?   I
> > bought the T61 with Suse Linux but their web site doesn't say that Lenovo
> > is using Linux anymore.  Does Lenovo use anything else besides Windows?
> 
> I believe they recently stopped selling laptops with linux on them.

Hrm, so it would seem. At least, when I bought my T61 about a year ago,
there was a SLED10 pre-installed system option. The T500 has since
replaced the T61 in their model lineup and no such SLED option.

Of course, I didn't actually *buy* the SLED system, because they
wouldn't let you choose the 802.11n wifi card (because SLED didn't
support it at the time), so I wound up getting one with Vista on it,
which I nuked in favor of my distro of choice. Lack of support for the
latest hardware could actually be one reason there's no SLED pre-install
option anymore, maybe it'll reappear after the next SLE{S,D} release.

Note that I believe Lenovo *does* still sell systems with Linux on them
to markets outside the US, at least for their IdeaPad S10 netbook line.
(I'd love to get an S10 if I didn't already have an Acer Aspire One).

--jarod