To me. Any company shipping Linux on their hardware is far from being a joke.
EGO II On Sun, Apr 4, 2021, 4:05 AM Richard Hughes <hughsi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 3 Apr 2021 at 10:01, lejeczek via users > <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > if you too jumped on that bandwagon of (fake) Lenovo euphoria towards > support, in > > generic terms, for Linux by the company - which is BAD across the board. > > That's not what I've experienced: I've been working with Lenovo for > about 2 years now, with ThinkStation, ThinkCenter and ThinkPad teams > (including sub-teams of ME, BIOS, etc), and about a dozen ODMs and > IHVs with my firmware work on the LVFS and fwupd. Although Lenovo had > some catching up to do, they now ship about as much firmware on the > LVFS (in terms of absolute downloads, and also in terms of models > supported) as Dell. In the last 18 months I've seen a Lenovo Linux > team grow from almost nothing to having almost daily contact with a > Senior Linux Developer at Lenovo. They are increasing the number of > models (and type of hardware) with firmware on the LVFS and I'll have > some more announcements about all that when it's all public. > > As I understand it, Lenovo only formally "supports Fedora" on models > actually sold with Fedora preinstalled (which is fair enough in my > opinion). At least unofficially I know there are a *huge* number of > other models that are being tested with Fedora and RHEL, and with > firmware updates available on the LVFS. I've been given access to > their IHVs and ODMs supplying devices and silicon to them, and the > support of Linux by Lenovo has contributed a huge amount to the > success of the LVFS. > > I think calling Lenovo a "joke" considering how much progress they've > made in the last 18 months is a huge mischaracterization. I buy Lenovo > and I've been Linux-exclusive for about the last 15 years. > > Richard. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure >
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