"Lenovo, the world's No. 3 PC maker, said on Monday it would start selling laptop computers preloaded with Linux software from Novell instead of Microsoft's Windows operating system." Ars Technica
has more on the announcement.
"ThinkPad customers will soon have a new configuration option, as Lenovo and Novell have announced that the popular laptops will begin shipping with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 (SLED) preinstalled. Although the ThinkPad has been certified for Linux for some time, this marks the first time Lenovo will ship a laptop with Linux preinstalled - while providing both hardware and OS support." Lenovo is the third big name to sell consumer computers with Linux installed (after
Dell and
Acer).
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2006-07-13
well, knowing SLES, SLED and OpenSUSE, I can assure you that it's a good thing. At least in the netherlands, the patents deal is of no value at all. Interoperability is something you cannot really argue about.
Basically, the only ones that really are legally f*, is MS itself.
MS tries to stop the open source community and tries to split the people and if you are immune to it, they fail. I am.