Lenovo is joining Dell in the “OEM Linux Laptop” club

Enlarge / You'll be able to buy a Thinkpad X1 Carbon with pre-installed and factory-supported Fedora Workstation 32 later this year. (credit: Lenovo)

It looks like Lenovo may upstage Dell as the big name in OEM Linux laptops-not counting specialty retailers like System76, of course. Red Hat and Lenovo are announcing pre-installed and factory-supported Fedora Workstation on several models of ThinkPad laptops at Red Hat Summit this week.

Dell's Linux support has generally been limited to one or two very specific laptops-first, the old Atom-powered netbooks and, more recently, the XPS 13 Developer Edition line. Lenovo is planning a significantly broader Linux footprint in its lineup.

Jakub Steiner produced a short video stinger for the Lenovo news, to be used at Red Hat Summit.

Fedora Workstation will be a selectable option during purchase for the Thinkpad P1 Gen2, Thinkpad P53, and Thinkpad X1 Gen8 laptops-and Lenovo may offer even broader model support in the future. Lenovo Senior Linux Developer Mark Pearson, who will be the featured guest in the May 2020 Fedora Council Video Meeting, expresses the company's stance on forthcoming integration:

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