Lenovo to offer preloaded SuSE linux on Thinkpad T60P

[disciple]

The PC maker, at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo beginning Aug. 14 , will announce a plan to pre-load Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 on one of its ThinkPad notebooks, sources familiar with the two company's plans said.

Lenovo, whose ThinkPads have long been a favorite of Linux users, will become the first PC manufacturer in recent history to allow individual customers to buy one of its notebooks, a ThinkPad T60p mobile workstation model, with the operating system pre-installed, the sources said.

Lenovo has projected itself as a strong supporter of the operating system in the past—it has certified most of its ThinkPad and ThinkCentre PC models to run Novell/SUSE, Red Hat and TurboLinux distributions—but to date it has only pre-installed the operating system on a custom basis for large customers.

Lenovo officials declined to comment for this story. However, in June 2006 they indicated a desire to more fully invest in the operating system.

for the uninitiated, SuSE  Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) is a linux distribution targeted at businesses, and supported by Novell...( i think it may include the new XGL and Compiz technologies, though not enabled by default). SLED 10 is based on the  OpenSuse 10.1 release


linux has always been well supported on Thinkpads, though not in an offical capacity...and the T series run things :-), with the 'p' denoting performance workstations . e.g. they ship with ATI's FireGL , instead of the consumer Radeon line

though ATI drivers for linux suck sweaty sack..

[Crixx_Creww]

.... steups @ firegl

are we supposed to be impressed?
pfft

soft mod almost any nvidia consumer card into a fully working and totally powerful quadro and you can also do the same with ati cards into fire gls.

Fire gls are not impressive so thas no biggy.

[disciple]

lol. yes crix; they can be softmodded..  however i cah see any serious firm buyin lesser cards with the intention of softmoddin them up to quadras/firegls  in any large way

i really mentioned it to highlight the market the t60p is targeted to ( CAD/CAM professionals)

anyhow , the point of the article was not how uber the t60 was cuz it comin with firegl (as you say, the firegls are no big thing)
 
but that it comin with suse


your point is noted, tho.. :-)

[TinyGrasshopper]

hurray! I think this shows that OEMs are realising that the desktop offering that Novell is putting out is topnotch so supporting would be okay. i assume that this woud be geared toward mobile business users.