PC vendor Lenovo has promised ThinkPads with pre-installed Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 for some time now. Lenovo will deliver the goods the week of Jan. 14. Lenovo will release pre-installed SLED 10 on its Intel Centrino processor-powered ThinkPad T61 and R61 14-inch-wide notebooks. In February, Lenovo's pre-integrated Novell Linux offering will expand to include some Penryn-based ThinkPads.
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Is there a license cost for including Suse on the hardware? The main issue with buying hardware preinstalled with VistaXP is paying for the license. Even if it's only 40$ OEM cost, I prefer not to premote MS business practices.
If the cost of getting the hardware with Suse preinstalled is, well, the same cost for me to download Suse then I have no problem with whatever libre licensed OS they put on it since it'll get a fresh install on delivery anyhow.
Heck, most businesses use there own images so buy the hardware without the Windows tax. In bulk hardware purchases, that could be a noticeable savings.
Either way, let's just be happy that another big brand hardware company offers a choice outside of "do you want Vista, or Vista Ultimate?"
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2006-08-17
uhm ... my point was that nobody voted for SLED (only 311 votes .. whereas FreeBSD, which is not even a linux distro, got 1500!) ...
so .. why asking you potential clients what they want if your going to do what you want anyway?
so much for making a poll ...