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> It means some Red Had people were paid to make sure all the hardware in the laptop works. IIRC, I've heard from former RH engineers that RH already runs most
by AdmiralAsshat 7y ago
> It means some Red Had people were paid to make sure all the hardware in the laptop works.
IIRC, I've heard from former RH engineers that RH already runs mostly on either Thinkpads or Dell laptops, so this could easily have been an internal push to make their own rollouts easier. It certainly makes provisioning faster if the guy preparing the Lenovo laptop doesn't have to start with blowing away the OS, loading Fedora, and then applying a dozen patches or other config changes to make the laptop happy w/ Fedora.
- dyingkneepad 7y agoI understand what you say, but this is different because there is official support from the OEM now. If something doesn't work the Red Hat engineer won't have to reverse-engineer stuff, they will officially contact Lenovo, which will officially contact the manufacturer of whatever component is not working, and they are going to work to a solution the proper way. Much better and faster than the alternative. Source: I worked doing exactly this many years ago.
- yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago> It certainly makes provisioning faster if the guy preparing the Lenovo laptop doesn't have to start with blowing away the OS, loading Fedora, and then applying a dozen patches or other config changes to make the laptop happy w/ Fedora. Doesn't all of that boil down to, "plug into the imaging system, boot, let Foreman (or whatever) do everything"? I can't imaging Red Hat having laptop setup be a manual process.
- oso2k 7y agoWe give our people Lenovo X1 Carbon, 7th gen, T490s, or T590. Our testing centers use Lenovo P73 and Dell Precision 7730 with 64GB or more of RAM.