After Dell broke the ice for pre-installing Linux on desktops and netbooks in 2007, the other major OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) reluctantly tried it out, and, in some cases, like Lenovo, backed right back out of the Linux desktop market again. As 2010 dawns though, Lenovo and HP are both back in the pre-installed desktop [...]
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The next generation of Linux notebooks arrives at CES
January 6th, 2010 · 4 Comments
Tags: HP · Infrastructure · Laptop · Lenovo · Linux · Novell · Operating System
Lenovo returns to the Linux desktop
November 13th, 2009 · 3 Comments
Lenovo might not describe their return to the Linux desktop like that, but that’s what they’re doing. Yesterday, November 12th, Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs gave the world a sneak peak at the Lenovo ARM Snapdragon-powered smartbook, a cross between a smartphone and a netbook. Jacobs added that Lenovo Linux-based smartbook would make its debut at [...]
Tags: Infrastructure · Laptop · Lenovo · Linux · Mobile · Operating System
Linux does have a future on netbooks
May 12th, 2009 · 2 Comments
I’m puzzled. Desktop Linux, for the first time ever, has at least 1% of the desktop market. Linux probably has considerably more than that. So, why is Lenovo’s Worldwide Competitive Analyst Matt Kohut claiming that Linux has no future on netbooks? Could it be because, as Kohut said, “there were a lot of returns because [...]
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