Lenovo now shipping Ubuntu on high end workstations in the US
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Re: Lenovo now shipping Ubuntu on high end workstations in the US
#2That’s neat. Does anyone know why they are targeting a 3D animation workload, specifically? Is there software for rendering ran on Linux machines that’s used in industry?
Re: Lenovo now shipping Ubuntu on high end workstations in the US
#3Wonder what crapware they managed to preload that may be even more difficult to remove on Linux than on Windows without the nuclear option.
Re: Lenovo now shipping Ubuntu on high end workstations in the US
#4I wonder if there is some market pressure from players like System76?
For anyone coming along- I managed two Lenovo ThinkStation P7 series towers and these cases (the P5 series looks almost identical) are really great. Everything in the case is screw-less / tool-less. I can't remember how the M.2 drives mounted- they may have had a screw but it was a great case.
Re: Lenovo now shipping Ubuntu on high end workstations in the US
#5This is great but I'd still just format the drives and load from an image I put onto a thumb drive.
Who knows what new glassfish-esq malware they have integrated into the factory OS.
Re: Lenovo now shipping Ubuntu on high end workstations in the US
#6That’s neat. Does anyone know why they are targeting a 3D animation workload, specifically? Is there software for rendering ran on Linux machines that’s used in industry?
DaVinci Resolve may be one use case. It's profesionally used video editing up to 8K footage and has free versions that run on Linux. It is actually pretty damn resource intensive when you are "rendering" the final version of a video with all your modifications.
Re: Lenovo now shipping Ubuntu on high end workstations in the US
#7Ships with Windows or Ubuntu. RHEL 7.3 officially supported.
Well, this is a positive development. I'd really like to see official support for something in the ThinkPad line, but after jumping through some hoops during installation, I've had zero problems running Arch on my Carbon X1.
Re: Lenovo now shipping Ubuntu on high end workstations in the US
#8I went to the linked page and tried to make configuration changes - the same computer with and without Windows. I couldn't find that option.
On Dell's website, they let you do this to many of their workstation computers and it appears that the cost of Windows is around $200. What's interesting is that when they are clearing out stock and they offer some basic workstation configurations at $500 or so, you can still delete Windows and get that $200 off the price.
Re: Lenovo now shipping Ubuntu on high end workstations in the US
#9That’s neat. Does anyone know why they are targeting a 3D animation workload, specifically? Is there software for rendering ran on Linux machines that’s used in industry?
We were not using any linux tooling in our VR pipeline last year (no longer working there). They've had a sales line geared toward VR and high end 3D for a few years now.
Lenovo is involved in the Oculus Quest, too... it's how the headband is the same as the Play Station VR headset.
Re: Lenovo now shipping Ubuntu on high end workstations in the US
#10That’s neat. Does anyone know why they are targeting a 3D animation workload, specifically? Is there software for rendering ran on Linux machines that’s used in industry?
Blender has recently seen Animation studios switching to it. It's recently seen a large amount of investment from Epic and a few others and one of the recent releases (2.8) made a lot of interface improvements that brought it in line with other industry tools.
https://www.blender.org/user-stories/japanese-anime-studio-k...
https://blender.community/c/today/2gdbbc/
https://www.blender.org/press/epic-games-supports-blender-fo...