[TriLUG] Lenovo and LINUX

[Pete Soper via TriLUG]

In vaguely 2001 or 2002 I met a professor at a conference and he was 
running Linux on a T series IBM laptop. When we last met in maybe 2005 
he was still hauling that thing around with a few hundred thousand miles 
on it. Lots of duct tape holding it in one piece at that point but it 
was still working. My point is that Linux was solid on that laptop 
series long before Lenovo came to town.

I wish the fingerprint reader worked too. That and some hassles with 
Bluetooth are the only issues I've had with my (Lenovo) T440s and T520 
models. With an E531 it took literally years to figure out how to 
disable the touch pad gesture recognition. Until then it was not usable 
without an outboard mouse.

-Pete

On 6/4/20 11:18 AM, Steve Holton via TriLUG wrote:
> I've had Linux on the Lenovo W701 since it came out in 2010.
>
> Never had a problem except for lack of support for the fingerprint reader.
>
> Still my daily workhorse.
>
> I wonder if they'll extend support backwards to legacy equipment like mine?
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 11:10 AM via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
>> "Lenovo" has supported Linux since it was IBM! My first IBM ThinkPad ran
>> Linux flawlessly, outta the box.
>>
>> -- Roger Broseus
>> Pls excuse auto-correction induzed tiepos.
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>> Subject: [TriLUG] Lenovo and LINUX
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>> Very good article and offers a possibility of LINUX desktops being "the
>> thing."
>>
>>
>> https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/03/lenovo_certifies_all_workstations_for_linux/
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