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1. Comment - Lenovo Debuts SUSE Linux Portables

   (Aug 15, 2006 - 10:00 PM)

   There *is* something new here. This is a maker of a portable PC, which would normally run Windows (the same models have been available with Windows for a while), coming right out and selling it with Linux installed instead, with all power management and other laptop-specific hardware in working order.
   
   No other maker of laptops has done that. IBM never did before it sold the laptop division to Lenovo. HP and Dell don't, despite their support for Linux on server machines. There are third parties (eg. Emperor Linux) who will do their best to get Linux working nicely on other peoples' laptops, with mixed results. But this is new.
   
   I understand that it's not all free software; it has high-end ATI "FireGL V5200" graphics (I don't know exactly what that means, but I'm sure there's no free driver for it!) and some of the specialist Thinkpad bits and bobs are ports of the Windows versions and remain proprietary to Lenovo. But hey, it's a start.