“Obviously it’s important to contribute upstream, and then it all comes down into the distros. “Same with the stylus, I’ve been working with the Wacom team,” Pearson says. Surely, though, Linux users will struggle with stylus support? The firmware right now is in testing status, but it’s going to go stable really soon.” We worked with Red Hat engineers and Synaptics, so the fingerprint reader on the models we’re launching does work. “Which for Linux users is very important. “We’ve been working with the hardware vendors, and making the vendors for the platforms we support Linux on contribute drivers upstream so it goes into the kernel, and the firmware goes onto LVFS,” says Pearson. No proprietary blobs, no “Lenovo exclusive” software.īut the outlook got even more encouraging when I asked about Linux support for ThinkPad fingerprint readers.
Above: Watch the entire interview with Fedora’s Matthew Miller and Lenovo’s Mark Pearson.Īs a testament to that, Pearson says that should you decide to wipe one of these ThinkPad hard drives and install a clean version of Fedora 32 Workstation, the only difference from what Lenovo ships will be some documentation.