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Lenovo Removes Linux Option For Home Buyers

Posted by timothy on from the and-the-linux-netbook's-non-us-only dept.

billybob2 writes "Lenovo has stopped selling laptops pre-installed with Linux on its web site, only 8 months after starting the trial program. This means that home customers won't be able to buy a Thinkpad without paying the Microsoft tax. Word has it that the decision to pull the plug on Linux came down from the highest levels of the Chinese company's corporate headquarters. For those looking to buy full-sized laptops and desktops with Linux pre-loaded Dell, System76, ZaReason and Everex all still offer such products."

2 of 380 comments (clear)

  1. Chinese Spyware... by PainMeds · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Chinese Spyware didn't support the Linux drivers.

    How do you say, "can it run Linux, bitch?" in Chinese?

  2. Re:Maybe they shouldn't have used Suse by howlingmadhowie · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    oh rubbish. ubuntu is the one distribution everybody's interested in. i'd guestimate about 75% of gnu/linux desktops and laptops are running ubuntu. apart from in germany, nobody's even heard of suse. dell did it right here. they asked which distribution should be pre-installed and the answer came back that 90% of the gnu/linux customers wanted ubuntu. lenovo just screwed it up. a bit like offering os2 pre-installed and commenting on the lukewarm reception by saying "nobody wants windows95 and here's the proof"