Lenovo’s Linux-Compatible ThinkPads
Apparently IBM sold its PC division to Lenovo, and they are planning to sell ThinkPads with Linux preinstalled. SuSE Linux, to be precise. According to Linux Journal, Lenovo is a China-based company, so it sounds like selling a division was like a sort of fire-and-forget mass outsourcing committed by IBM. Thanks IBM, for moving thousands of jobs to a Communist East Asian company. That’s exactly what the global economy needs right now.
Politics aside, this laptop looks promising. LJ reports that Novell and Lenovo will be working together on the project. Hopefully designing the hardware and software to work together will result in high performance for the power users this solution is geared toward: with GBs of RAM and a price sticker over 3-grand, this is most definately a “portable workstation” for enterprise use, which, in my opinion is too bad. When Linux-based software companies sit down with hardware distributors to make ends meet, I’m always hoping that the product will appeal to the less-computer-savvy market where Linux is not in common use. Unfortunately, Lenovo and Novell aren’t planning on replacing the Dells and the Gateways any time soon.
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November 25th, 2006 at 09:43:56
Well, those stupid major computer companies should damned well start looking at a linux-user-friendly PC, because its popularity is growing in the world of users which are computer-literate. Maybe sometime in the future when the cry for a better non-windows PC becomes overwhelming (see: failure of vista) than Linux will sit down and make a possibly non-business solution cost effective for the average joe!