Posted by Migo on Aug 4th, 2006
Today, we found out that Lenovo Group, who has taken over IBM’s Personal Computing Division, has made a deal with Novell to preload SLED10 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) onto it’s ThinkPad T60p.
This marks the first time an OEM has made a commitment to loading a linux desktop as the default operating system. Before you could get a linux distrobution preloaded from second or third-tier vendors. Or, if you were buying hundreds of laptops at a time, you could get an OEM to preload linux for you. However, this seems to be the first time that a major OEM has agreed to preload a linux distrobution to their systems right out of the box.
This laptop is no slouch either, folks. It boasts a 2GHz Intel Core Duo processor, minimum 512MB of RAM that can be upgraded to 2GB and an ATI FireGL V5200 graphics card with 256MB of RAM. That’s not a bad machine at all, definitely not your dad’s old TRS80.
It’s expected to come with docking support, Help Center support, a configuration utility, and other little goodies that they are calling a “ThinkPad Experience”. If you’re thinking about using another distro on your T60p, sorry guys, the Help Center is only supporting SLED. Now, as many of us know, that doesn’t mean the advice on a lot of things won’t be the same, but just so you know, that’s the only supported distro…yeah.
Whether you prefer SUSE to any other distrobution, or even if you care for linux at all, is beside the point. You have to agree, getting an OEM to package linux on its desktops is a big step in the right direction for linux, no matter the size of the OEM. It gives those who want to learn but are too afraid to install themselves a chance to learn and shows people that they do have a choice.
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