LenovoandNovellare to offer the Linux
operating system preloaded onto Lenovo ThinkPad notebook PCs. The
announcement came on the same day thatDell stated its intention to sell PCs factory-installed
with Ubuntu Linux.
Lenovo will provide direct support for both the hardware and
operating system.
Novell will provide maintenance updates for the operating system
directly to
ThinkPad notebook customers.
The companies will offer
Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 from Novell to commercial
customers on Lenovo notebooks.
"We have seen more customers utilising and requesting open
source notebook solutions in education, government and the
enterprise," said Sam Dusi, VP of product marketing at Lenovo's
notebook business unit.