Lenovo + Ubuntu = Apple?

Mark Pilgrim did it.

Then Cory Doctorow did it as well.

O’Reilly has noticed them doing it.

...and now /. (that bastion of journalism) is talking about it.

What is it?

People (whom some would call alpha geeks) are switching from Apple’s OS X to Ubuntu. Noteworthy in itself, but so far I’ve not seen anyone make the connection that both Mark and Cory have switched to Ubuntu on Lenovo kit (the hardware formally known as IBM).

I’m not suprised they chose this combination – Lenovo + Ubuntu is a very good match.

In fact in my office right now I’ve got four pieces of Lenovo Kit:

1 x T41 laptop (which this post is being written on) which theoretically dual boots, but I’ve not booted into XP since I install Ubuntu on it 3 x M51 towers, 2 of which are running Ubuntu 6.06, and the other has an ailing install of XP which is still there purely because of inertia

Installing Ubuntu on the Thinkpad was a dream compared to getting XP running at the same feature level. It’s not just the latest and greatest Ubuntu that works so well with this hardware – before Dapper was released I ran Breezy on the two of the M51s.