Lenovo ditches Linux
Chinese PC manufacturing giant Lenovo, which years ago purchased IBM's personal computer business, appears to have quietly stopped offering Linux as a pre-installation option. None of the company's 49 ThinkPad and IdeaPad notebook models -- nor its many ThinkCenter and IdeaCenter desktops -- can currently be ordered with Linux.
Lenovo does offer four high-end ThinkStation workstation models without any commercial operating system software, but all of its other systems now carry the "Microsoft Tax," it appears. That is, in order to purchase one of the systems, you have to pay for a Microsoft Windows operating system license.
As early as 1999, IBM offered Red Hat pre-installed on select ThinkPad models. And too, prior to buying IBM's PC business, Lenovo -- then China's largest PC maker -- offered Red Flag Linux pre-installed on some systems.
After acquiring IBM's PC business, Lenovo's first Linux ThinkPad shipped in January of last year with Novell SUSE Linux pre-installed,
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