联想可能会预装ubuntu

[zhuqin_83]

http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7908457804.html

Lenovo finally started shipping SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop on its T-Series ThinkPads for its mainstream business users. Now, the company appears to be considering offering another Linux, very possibly Ubuntu, for the enthusiast market.

In a recent Lenovo Inside the Box blog posting by Matt Kohut, Lenovo's worldwide competitive analyst, Kohut said he'd been following recent discussions on Lenovo and Linux. From what he's observed, Lenovo's users believe "that we're spending way too much time on the enterprise market and not enough on the enthusiast market. Enterprises have been, and will continue to be, slow to adopt Linux for some of the reasons I outlined, but there are nonetheless a LOT of people running Linux out there, especially on their ThinkPads."

Historically, Lenovo, and IBM before it, has marketed the ThinkPad laptop line to higher-end business customers.

Kohut went on to write, "I need to try Ubuntu. One of our competitors [Dell] has done so and it seems to be working out for them." In addition, Kohut said, "We're not anti-Linux and I'm not anti-Linux. Like other vendors we're trying to figure out what our strategy should be. You all know that I can never comment on anything unannounced, so I took an extreme [anti-Linux laptop] stance to stimulate discussion."

Kohut concluded by opening up a survey to see which desktop Linux ThinkPad customers would like Lenovo to offer. The survey, which began on Sept. 7, has in approximately 48 hours already tallied 13,402 votes.

Of these votes, the majority (7,196) are for Ubuntu. Trailing far behind Ubuntu is Debian with 1,443 supporters. Third place currently goes to a user suggestion of any Linux "that refuses to carry binary-only drivers, so that all others will also benefit, as it will require documented hardware."

After that, the business Linux desktops finally start appearing. Red Hat, if you combine Red Hat and Fedora votes, comes in at 913 votes. SUSE, which Lenovo already offers in the form of SLED 10.1, lags at 686 votes if you combine all the votes for SLED, openSUSE and SUSE. After that come more than a dozen other distributions, including a smattering of votes for OpenSolaris and FreeBSD.

Is Lenovo planning on offering another Linux for its ThinkPads? We don't know yet. We do know that Dell's similar user polling preceded its launch of its Ubuntu-powered PCs.

Based on the survey results, Ubuntu is clearly the Linux that the enthusiasts want to see from Lenovo. If Lenovo does decide to pursue this market, it is possible that it could offer Ubuntu on either its inexpensive 3000 Family notebooks N Series, which are already designed for home or small-business users, or its low-end ThinkPad line, the R Series, as early as the 2007 holiday season.

While it's by no means a slam dunk that Lenovo will be offering a Linux-powered laptop for home Linux users, it does seem unlikely that the company would be stirring up excitement for such an offering unless it was giving the matter serious consideration.

—Steven J. Vaughan Nichols

[karron]

前几天我也投了一票

[zhuqin_83]

karron这么早阿？

[猛将兄]

我也早投了。不知道到时候我的vista premium能不能退货

[karron]

我的Home Basic能不能退货啊...

[qiu_923]

有钱也不买联想

[zhuqin_83]

我的Home Basic能不能退货啊...

应该可以的吧，M$的eula上有说明的。

[huangziheng]

把LINUX装到联想上，简直是侮辱了LINUX。
联想那些垃圾品牌，垃圾机子，装WIN吧，或者直接DOS就行了。
即使联想真的装上LINUX，我想也没多少人会用。
因为会用的人一般都不会买联想。

[猛将兄]

楼上的好拖出去毙了

[ubuntusky]

标题应改为 thinkpad T 系

　用T系的用户有不少都只装linux , 这是一直以来的事实，就算不装linux的一部分忠实的T系内地用户，买回T系后也是册掉简体中文xp ,改用英文xp的居多，有人只买thinkpad T系， 除了炭纤维，钛合金，小红帽，IBM Yamoto 的原因外，就是因为过去IBM对linux支持做得出色：

现在三万元左右的IBM server （这个不是联想）,除了能完美安装最新的linux发行版外，古老的linux一样完美安装，不得不服IBM的确与众不同。


过去Thinkpad 没有win键,IBM的解释： Thinkpad 不只是为M$ win设计。

联想如果不公开宣称T系支持linux主流内核，对联想旗下的thinkpad T系的地位而言将是一场灾难，过去忠实的客户都会流失。

[purpleice]

dell已经退出suse的专用机了！看着还不错，wine的游戏效果也可以，就是要求硬件有点高，不太符合linux的原则！

[momova]

联想就选何种Linux发行版展开用户投票


关键词: 联想 Linux发行版 用户投票

　　戴尔在选择Linux发行版时，进行过公开的投票。联想现在也对Linux很感兴趣，自从联想在它的ThinkPad T系列的本本上为其主流企业客户搭配了SUSE Linux Enterprise桌面系统之后，又一个Linux系统正被考虑提供，而且专门针对发烧级市场！

　　在最近由Matt Kohut所写的题为:“Lenovo Inside the Box blog posting”这篇日志上，联想的Kohut在针对世界范围竞争分析中说道他已经针对Lenovo和Linux进行了好几场讨论。就如他所观察到的，联想的用户认为他们花了太多的时间在企业级别的市场上，而忽略了发烧级市场。

　　或许是看到了戴尔的成功，联想的官方blog也发起了公开的投票，请消费者从SUSE、SLED、Debian、Red Hat、Ubuntu、FreeBSD等发行版中选择一个在ThinkPad上预装的Linux或BSD操作系统。数据统计显示，两天内一共有13,402个用户参与了投票。

　　不出意料，Ubuntu目前高居第一位，获得了4000左右的投票，占总投票数的65%；第二位Debian不到10%。

　　越来越多的厂商开始出货它们的Linux电脑，这对Linux发展这是一鼓强大的推力！

投票地址： http://lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=98

[purpleice]

什么时候能出给ubuntu或者kubuntu专门做的本啊？

[ubuntusky]

获得了4000左右的投票，

投票地址： http://lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=98

我看的时候，远不止这个数了，本来对lenovo Thinkpad(t43或t43以后的产品) 不再感兴趣的，如果Thinkpad预装ubuntu ,还是优先考虑thinkpad

[猛将兄]

另外，仔细看完Matt的blog，我只想说他是个白痴加自大狂，并且对Linux完全不了解。他这么做完完全全是市场姿态而已