Lenovo Releseas "Linux" Laptops

Wed Aug 16 19:05:15 UTC 2006

On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 14:25 -0400, Ahmad wrote:

> Lenovo has released two latops that are "certified" to run with SUSE 
> Linux Enterprise Desktop Version 10.  The article claims that Lenovo 
> will offer end user support for these laptops running this flavour of 
> Linux.  The article claims even the modem will have Linux drivers 
> available for it.  Sadly it uses an ATI chipset.  The article claims two 
> features of the laptop are not supported but claim Lenovo may release 
> drivers for them in the future.  The two features are Active Protection 
> System and the biometric security.


We've been providing that model and other Thinkpads with Ubuntu 6.06. We
have Active Protection and the fingerprint scanner working.
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