[TriLUG] Lenovo and LINUX

[Wes Garrison via TriLUG]

Respectfully, I think some folks are missing the point.

Of course people have run Linux and other *nixes on all manner of PCs and
laptops for years.

The important differences here are:
1) you can order these workstations and P-series Thinkpads with Ubuntu LTS
or RHEL *preinstalled*.  This opens Linux up to a much larger customer base.
2) it is officially supported so all drivers will work, including the
fingerprint reader
3) they are contributing drivers and other software back upstream
4) this will benefit other Thinkpads/workcenters, and probably other PCs as
well.

If this benefits RHEL, it will certainly benefit Centos.  If it benefits
Ubuntu, it will probably benefit Debian.

Will all drivers be FLOSS?  Unknown.  But it's a start, and that's welcome.

-Wes

On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 12:07 PM Pete Soper via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> 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.
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Z-man via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
> >> To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion <trilug at trilug.org>
> >> Sent: Thu, 04 Jun 2020 7:55 AM
> >> Subject: [TriLUG] Lenovo and LINUX
> >>
> >> 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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