{"id":111972,"date":"2020-04-24T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fedoramagazine.org\/?p=30904"},"modified":"2020-04-24T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T14:00:00","slug":"coming-soon-fedora-on-lenovo-laptops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/04\/24\/coming-soon-fedora-on-lenovo-laptops\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming soon: Fedora on Lenovo laptops!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, I\u2019m excited to share some big news with you\u2014Fedora Workstation will be available on Lenovo ThinkPad laptops! Yes, I know,  many of us already run a Fedora operating system on a Lenovo system, but this is different. You\u2019ll soon be able to get Fedora pre-installed by selecting it as you customize your purchase. This is a pilot of Lenovo\u2019s Linux Community Series – Fedora Edition, beginning with ThinkPad P1 Gen2, ThinkPad P53, and ThinkPad X1 Gen8 laptops, possibly expanding to other models in the future.<\/p>\n

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The Lenovo team has been working with folks at Red Hat who work on Fedora desktop technologies to make sure that the upcoming Fedora 32 Workstation is ready to go on their laptops. The best part about this is that we\u2019re not bending our rules for them. Lenovo is following our existing trademark guidelines and respects our open source principles. That\u2019s right\u2014these laptops ship with software exclusively from the official Fedora repos! When they ship, you\u2019ll see Fedora 32 Workstation. (Models which can benefit from the NVIDIA binary driver can install it in the normal way after the fact, by opting in to proprietary software sources.) <\/p>\n

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Obviously, this is huge for us. Our installer aims to make the complicated process of installing Fedora to replace another operating system as easy as possible, but it\u2019s still a barrier even for tech-literate people. A major-brand laptop with Fedora pre-installed will help bring Fedora to a wider audience. That and Lenovo\u2019s commitment to fixing issues as part of the community means that everyone benefits from their Linux engineering work in the true spirit of open source collaboration. <\/p>\n

As Mark Pearson, Sr. Linux Developer, from Lenovo said, \u201cLenovo is excited to become a part of the  Fedora community. We want to ensure an optimal Linux experience on our products. We are committed to working with and learning from the open source community.\u201d Mark Pearson will be the featured guest in May\u2019s Fedora Council Video Meeting<\/a> – get your questions ready.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll have more details about this project as we get closer to the launch. In the meantime, I invite you to come to our Open Neighborhood virtual booth at Red Hat Summit<\/a> on April 28-29. The entire event is free and open to all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, I\u2019m excited to share some big news with you\u2014Fedora Workstation will be available on Lenovo ThinkPad laptops! Yes, I know,  many of us already run a Fedora operating system on a Lenovo system, but this is different. You\u2019ll soon be able to get Fedora pre-installed by selecting it as you customize your purchase. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[45,61,998,46,75,47,126],"class_list":["post-111972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fedora-os","tag-fedora","tag-fedora-project-community","tag-lenovo","tag-magazine","tag-new-in-fedora","tag-news","tag-using-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}