Lenovo Delivers SuSE Linux-Based ThinkPads

angryfirelord notes a DesktopLinux article on Lenovo's promise to deliver ThinkPads with pre-installed Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 in the week of January 14. Quoting: "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. The starting price for this system will be $949, $20 less than the same laptop with Vista Home Premium."

Comments

20 bucks?

[rastoboy29]

Does that mean MS only charges $20 per license to OEM's?

I'd say that was a fair price for Windows.

Re:It's about $600 pricier than expected

[maxwell demon]

It's SUSE ("Nuremberg Windows") we are talking about here. A 10.2 default install managed to make my dual core Athlon 64 barely usable (one core was 100% busy running zmd, the other one was 100% busy running beagle, of course both at nice 0).