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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday April 28 2020, @04:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the good-luck-with-that dept.

Lenovo is joining Dell in the "OEM Linux Laptop" club:

It looks like Lenovo may upstage Dell as the big name in OEM Linux laptops—not counting specialty retailers like System76, of course. Red Hat and Lenovo are announcing pre-installed and factory-supported Fedora Workstation on several models of ThinkPad laptops at Red Hat Summit this week.

Dell's Linux support has generally been limited to one or two very specific laptops—first, the old Atom-powered netbooks and, more recently, the XPS 13 Developer Edition line. Lenovo is planning a significantly broader Linux footprint in its lineup.

Fedora Workstation will be a selectable option during purchase for the Thinkpad P1 Gen2, Thinkpad P53, and Thinkpad X1 Gen8 laptops—and Lenovo may offer even broader model support in the future. Lenovo Senior Linux Developer Mark Pearson, who will be the featured guest in the May 2020 Fedora Council Video Meeting, expresses the company's stance on forthcoming integration:

Lenovo is excited to become a part of the Fedora community. We want to ensure an optimal Linux experience on our products. We are committed to working with and learning from the open source community.


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  • (Score: 1) by pTamok on Tuesday April 28 2020, @05:34PM

    by pTamok (3042) on Tuesday April 28 2020, @05:34PM (#987923)

    I agree. It's not that I think AMD is necessarily better, but I would like to see more competition in the processor market - diversity is good. You might even get chipsets/motherboards where you can tell the hardware not to trust the manufacturer.