Lenovo to offer Suse on laptops

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BioTube · #1 Post by **BioTube** » 2007-08-06 19:58

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6933859.stm

I'm starting to lose hope that Debian will ever come preinstalled on a major brand.

ghostdawg · #2 Post by **ghostdawg** » 2007-08-06 23:21

I wish they had picked a different distro, Debian comes to mind, but at least this should be good for linux in general...and I hope Lenovo advertise it more openly and don't do like Dell and hide their linux offerings on their website.

BioTube · #3 Post by **BioTube** » 2007-08-06 23:45

At the very least this means we know where to look for computers that play nice with Linux, provided they aren't slipping in binary blobs.

AgenT · #4 Post by **AgenT** » 2007-08-07 16:42

BioTube wrote:At the very least this means we know where to look for computers that play nice with Linux, provided they aren't slipping in binary blobs.

Companies usually do slip in binary blobs, but Lenovo (IBM) laptops are some of the best Linux compatible laptops out there. One major factor is due to having so many things controlled via hardware, instead of software. See my (very long and detailed) posts about IBM/Lenovo laptops for more details.

BioTube · #5 Post by **BioTube** » 2007-08-07 17:53

I never did like dehardwareization.

perlhacker14 · #6 Post by **perlhacker14** » 2007-08-08 13:36

Well SuSE does have commercial support and is an enterprised and all that, so people who complain about support cannot complain... Lenovo laptops are more compatable with Linux, especially with wireless drivers.

jml · #7 Post by **jml** » 2007-08-08 21:23

Ghostdawg, I agree with you. I have had a bad taste in my mouth ever since Novel made that "deal" with Microsoft. It was unlikely that a company like Lenovo would go with a non-commercial distro like Debian since they market many of their computers to corporations and corporate buyers like things like aftermarket support that they can pay for and "rely on."

On the other hand, I think its a very good sign that Lenovo made this move. It was not too long ago that Lenovo seemed on the path of developing a very Linux unfriendly attitude. For example, unlike the ThinkPad line of laptops that they purchased from IBM, their own 3000 series of notebooks were not noted for being particularly Linux friendly. Hopefully this will now change.

Joe

hellfire[bg] · #8 Post by **hellfire[bg]** » 2007-08-09 05:28

It was unlikely that a company like Lenovo would go with a non-commercial distro like Debian since they market many of their computers to corporations and corporate buyers like things like aftermarket support that they can pay for and "rely on."

They could have used Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

otter · #9 Post by **otter** » 2007-09-09 17:10

Don't lose hope!

MeanDean · #10 Post by **MeanDean** » 2007-09-09 17:21

I am hoping that HP will step up and put debian on some consumer systems since they have used/supportted debian for a good while.

matino · #11 Post by **matino** » 2007-09-22 15:17

SuSe will be also installed on ASUS notebooks in the near future. Pitty not Debian

swirling_vortex · #12 Post by **swirling_vortex** » 2007-09-24 16:34

I smell Microsoft.