Saturday, May 14, 2011

Canonical is working with Lenovo to equipment certification

Canonical announced today another great partnership in the area of ​​computers and notebooks: From now on, the company will collaborate with Lenovo in order to certify Ubuntu on their equipment. Lenovo is the fourth largest producer of computers worldwide, and this partnership with Canonical aims to increase its market reach.


Now with more penguins
The announcement, made by John Bernard Canonical's official blog, remember that there are already around 30 different models of the Lenovo ThinkPad with Ubuntu already certified. These ThinkPads preloaded with Ubuntu 10.10, have high-end hardware and are available for purchase.

But what is the advantage of having an equipment certified by Canonical? With this, you (or your company) guarantees full compatibility with the system's hardware without having to search the web for tutorials to make obscure video card work properly. Also, with Ubuntu preinstalled on equipment, there is a guarantee that it will have all the setup programs and maintaining the system properly configured.

Besides, of course, to avoid that situation negligible carry equipment and technical assistance to hear that he lost by not more secure Windows ...

Although most of the equipment still are certified with Ubuntu 10.10, it is possible to find some certificates with 11.04, and possibly they will begin to leave the factory already installed with this version. You can see a list of all machines that are certified Lenovo's own site at Canonical.

Unfortunately, a Brazilian store in Buca Lenovo notebook shows no longer being sold or computer with Linux installed, but maybe not so with a pressure of users?