X1 Carbon G10 with Fedora up in NA and Help Needed with Lenovo web teams
Hi all,
Just a note that I finally got the X1 Carbon G10 with Fedora up in North
America. It's taken a few weeks of wrangling with the web team but it's
there. Please let me know if you see any issues. Go to the X1 Carbon
page in the US or Canada and look for "ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10 Intel
(14") with Linux".
Which brings me to the second part of my request.....
I need help giving feedback to the web teams - I think they need to hear
from Linux users. When I talked to them earlier in the year they were
positive about putting Linux online, but now I have the systems
available...they're busy, and we get delayed or worst case ignored
completely.
So - If you're interested in getting a Linux preloaded system in the
next 12 months could you:
- Go to the Lenovo website for your geo
- Look for the feedback button (usually bottom left).
- Leave feedback that you came looking for Linux systems (or even
better a particular Linux system if that's what you want) and couldn't
find it/them.
Be specific about what you would be looking for - I don't want this all
to be labelled as a spam campaign; but now is a great time to highlight
that Linux demand is *real*.
Please only do this if you genuinely are interested in buying a Linux
preloaded system and the fact that they're not available would make you
look elsewhere. I don't want to game the system - that will not help the
Linux project in the long run; but I want to convince the web teams that
there is real Linux interest and it should be a priority.
Systems for this year that are ready to go online right now:
X1 Carbon 10
X1 Yoga 7
L13 AMD, L14 AMD, L15 AMD G3
L13 Intel G3
T15p G3
X13 Yoga G3
T14s G3
T14 G3
P14s G3
T15p
P15v
P360 Tiny, Ultra and Tower
I expect to have the T16, Z13 and (fingers crossed) Z16 next week. The
remaining AMD platforms shortly after that.
I'm supposed to be putting up ThinkCenter platforms (M70/M80/M90) but
I've not had enough progress with the web teams to tackle them yet.
Full disclosure - most of the above are Ubuntu preloads. If you want
Fedora preloads put that in the feedback too!
Thanks!
Mark