Lenovo’s first client computer with Fedora is on sale, along with several more to come with Fedora, RHEL, and Ubuntu.To celebrate this achievement, Christian Schaller, Red Hat’s Senior Director of Software Engineering, wrote a huge and decidedly exclusive account of these new Fedora-powered ThinkPads.Schaller also summarizes Red Hat’s past efforts to advance Linux and mocks some engaging topics about the computer roadmap.
Schaller wastes no time pointing out why Lenovo’s new Linux initiative, years in the making, is such a good deal.
“This is an exclusive collaboration between the world’s largest computer manufacturer and the world’s largest Linux company,” Schaller says.”What we’re doing here is just minimal hardware activation effort, but a concerted effort to evolve Linux as a computer operating formula and do it in an open source way.”
It’s a plan and I’m here for that.
In my recent interview with Mark Pearson of Lenovo (included below), I had the feeling that the company was looking to treat Linux as a first-class citizen, and my delight with the ThinkPad P53 turns out to be a sure step of myself..towards the realization of this reality.
As I mentioned earlier, Lenovo not only places Fedora Workstation on those systems.
“Lenovo has made sure all of its component brands are improving their Linux and we’ve been working with them to help them start writing drivers for Linux or help them load an infrastructure to which they can connect their hardware,” schaller says.
Part of this infrastructure is LVFS (Linux Vendor Firmware Service) which assures consumers that the updated firmware is delivered not only for the laptop, but also for its parts, such as the fingerprint sensor.
If you have ever felt rejected through a PC purchase because you discovered that some of this hardware is rarely very compatible on Linux, you certainly perceive the importance of the above.
Schaller also described past paintings (Wayland, Pipewire audio) and a list of long-term innovations in progress through Red Hat and Lenovo, two of which are welcome:
Schaller ends the first part of his article on an ambitious note, assuring potential consumers that purchasing a Lenovo computer with Fedora provides them with a fair formula and supports “our efforts to take Linux to the next level, which I think we are the only one.”Linux provider with engineering capability and mandatory scale.”
Plot! Your move, Dell. . .
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