Canonical Will Collaborate With Lenovo
Canonical, through John Bernard, has just announced a couple of minutes ago that they will start a collaboration with the popular Lenovo company, the world’s 4th largest PC manufacturer.
It is now official that Canonical will work closely with Lenovo to certify the Ubuntu operating system on various Lenovo laptops, workstations and servers.
At the moment there are more than thirty (30) Lenovo ThinkPads that are certified with Ubuntu, and many more will come by the end of this year. To check all the existing Ubuntu-certified Lenovo machines, please click here.
“There are now over 30 Lenovo ThinkPads certified with Ubuntu, with many of these being completed in the first half of 2011. The great work with Lenovo continues.”
“The ThinkPads, pre-installed with Ubuntu 10.10 are available with the latest processors from Intel and AMD are available to purchase today. The model list includes the Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 14, the latest consumer and small business-oriented ThinkPad from Lenovo.” – said John Bernard in the announcement.
weird how they just randomly certify machines that to not entirely work well in ubuntu. for example 10.10 does not auto detect the wireless chip in thinkpad edge 13, and 11.04 freezes randomly on that machine.
I think such a cooperation should mainly mean increased testing on those machines and compatibility, not mere preinstallations and meaningless certificates