 It's a quite short presentation. I was a little bit worried that I was gonna be too repetitive. I did the Fedora 36 release party and I didn't really wanna rehash just what I did for that. So I kinda cut it down. And then I saw in the polls that it's like 40% people who are first time at Nest and new to this. So I was like, ah, so I rejig things a little bit. I like to do these presentations based on questions that I get from people. And there is the Q&A tab on Hoppin, which is fantastic. So please put questions in there and I will try and make it sort of like somewhat interactive and kind of hard without the actual voice pieces. I can be contacted, Mark Pearson at Lenovo.com. You're welcome to do that with the only caveat that I'm on vacation next week and offline. So expected delay in replies and my inbox is crazy, but I would love to hear from people. I don't wanna talk at people like to hear from you. And I'm gonna hang out in the sponsor social and I'll try and hit some of the other socials later on today. So let's see if this works, cool. So the table of contents, I don't actually, I'm very happy to be flexible on what topics to cover. I'm gonna go through the first three and then I'll check on the Q&A and see which topics people wanna cover. So I'm just putting this up here. So you can have a think about it. So for Eddie, just a note, yep, the presentation started. So cover the first three. I've had lots of questions about the X13S arm. So if you guys are interested, I can talk a little bit about what's happening with that platform and some of the Linux work being done there. I put, I removed last year's issues, but I put it back in basically because I know there's lots of people who might not have heard the Fedora 36 release party talk. I actually recommend going to that one just to go into more detail, but I can quick snapshot if people are interested into what happened last year. Secured Core PC third-party certificate. Then if people see Matthew Garrett's blog, I know there's lots of questions floating around about that. If there's questions about it, I'm happy to answer those, talk about that. WAN comes up a lot on our Lenovo Linux forums. So it's an option, open source contributions. I think those are a key part of doing a Linux program for any vendor. So happy to share what we're doing and some of the progress we've made, it's still a long way to go. Mipi camera, just as a note, don't buy an X1 Carbon, Yoga, or Nano with a Mipi camera because Linux support doesn't work, but I can go into the details of that if you're interested. And then the last two genuinely, I'd love to hear Fedora experiences on our laptops genuinely like talking to people and hearing that. So it's kind of Fedora experiences, I perform this open, if we get time to them, I would love to do that. So I'm just gonna try to keep an eye on the chat, okay, so we've got some good questions coming up and I think that's gonna work out fairly well. All righty, so very quick introduction. And my apologies for all the Fedora people who have attended this talk before, you're like, yeah, shut up, Mark, we know who you are. But just for those who do not, I am the technical lead for the Lenovo Linux PC team. Basically it's the team I work with, it's our job to get Linux running well on the laptops and desktops the Lenovo PCs that are part of our Linux program. It's an awesome job. I get to play with Linux every day and I get to work with communities and I get to work with upstream and I get to work with hardware vendors on that. So that's pretty awesome. I have been working with them for 20 years, I kind of ended up with it by accident and very happy accident. I've been with the Linux, the PC team for three years. So, and it's been a blast. It's a little bit crazy sometimes, lots of challenges, but genuinely, it's very cool to be able to come and work with people like the Fedora community, that's the bit that makes my toes tingle. Yeah, the last bit is my kids bet me I wouldn't put this on the slide. The good looking one of the photo is my dog, Nick's. And just as a note, because it's nothing to do with Linux, it's Nick's NYX after the Greek goddess of darkness because my eldest daughter was a Greek mythology nut. All righty, breaking news. So I literally, I put this into my slide deck and now I go that breaking news. So, X1 Carbon 10 is going to be online. This is from our internal test site where they basically put it up and I can review it and say, yep, there's no issues. So this is not live yet. This is from the US internal test site. So we will have the X1 Carbon 10 with Fedora up in the US I expect by next week. Important note, ignore the pricing. Pricing has not been set yet. It's wrong. So just ignore it, but just want to say, yay, platforms are actually going online this year. We can maybe discuss the issues last year, but yeah, this year's looking so much better. And this is actually, this is my second platform, the P360 went up as well last week. But this is the first one with Fedora is up this year. So that's exciting. And yeah, literally fresh, hot off the press this morning. Alrighty, and this is the last in full slide. And after that, I will make it more flexible, but I just wanted to kind of give an update. Again, this overlaps a lot with what was in the Fedora release party presentation, but just to give an update on what our team is doing for this year, we have a whole heap of limits platforms. There's I think 36 plus there's 35 on there. And then we also have think center, think edge platforms going on of particular interest of course for you guys is we have more Fedora platforms. So I think it was actually two years ago, the big feedback from the Fedora community was more AMD. So you've got more AMD. So there's a few exciting ones, the Zed series, which I'm really enthusiastic about. We have the Zed 13 and the Zed 16. The just literally going through final tests with Fedora on those and it's looking good. A quick note, say thank you to the release team and Ben Williams for basically doing us the Fedora respin image so that we can put that into our test team. And so far it's good. We have one last card reader BIOS related problem that is happened last week. There's always a last minute problem, but I'm hoping I'll be signing off on those soon. X1 Carbon as you saw is ready to go. We've also added the P16S AMD on the workstation side, which is a nice one to add. I've been very happy to put that in. And then we have the next gen for the P1 and the P15 and the P17 have now been replaced by the P16 so we're doing Fedora on P1 and the P16. I'm a bit nervous about those two just as a heads up. I'm not seeing progress on the Nuvo front that I was hoping. So I don't know where we'll stand with these two from a Fedora release because of Nvidia, but we will see. I don't want to be negative ahead of time, but I'm nervous on that one. But so it's good. More Fedora platforms. We have new platforms generally. We've added the L-Series AMD, the E-Series is new. We've not done the E-Series before. So they've joined and that's nice to have some of the lower end platforms. We have some issues there with the fingerprint reader. I'm happy to see our Linux portfolio is growing and obviously the Z-Series that we talked about this is the Z-Series is the high end AMD. It's kind of the equivalent of the X1 on the Intel side. It's cutting edge that we have on the AMD side and AMD have an awesome Linux team who've been doing so much great work. It's good to see. I think I saw inronics that AMD are now one of the contributors in the kernel. If you're interested in the technology side of things. On the Intel side, our platforms are Older Lake this year. So you will see Older Lake P primarily on the ThinkPad and Older Lake H on the Workstation. So the fun thing with Older Lake is it's got these E-Cores and these P-Cores. So you're getting efficiency and these performance cores. So you should see a performance bump. It's quite cool technology. It's given us some challenges with thermal. But I think that's now getting solved and it's nice platforms. Intel have done a good job there. AMD have the Rembrandt's and the Barcello's. So Rembrandt's on the Z series and I think the T's and then Barcello's on the L series. They're doing some amazing work there. I haven't put them in the table. We have ThinkCenter, which is the desktops and we have a new ThinkEdge portfolio for the Edge related. I attended the Fidora IoT talk yesterday and that's very interesting. It's something to keep an eye on. So I haven't put those on. I previously have avoided kind of talking about ThinkCenter because the Linux support there has been a bit hit and miss. But they're stepping up. They're doing your VFS support. They've been doing the right thing. So we're going to be trying to get those online too. And yeah, funny enough, I wrote these slide decks before. I had the X1 ComSort. So yeah, platforms going online now. We have a bunch that are completed. Obviously we've not finished all of them. There's a lot that's still in the work. I should probably have figured out a way of highlighting which ones are actually done. But I think we have like eight done and the rest are in progress. Alrighty, so I'm going to take a little pause and just have a quick look at the questions. So, oh, as you know, thank you. So Christian, you have, so web sales. I knew I'd missed something. So yes, on web sales last year, we had troubles getting them online. There were technical issues and we had supply issues. So the good news is, is it's looking better for this year, North America. We expect to get our Linux platforms online. The North America web team have been very supportive and they'd kind of jumped that X1 Carbon in the queue a little bit so that I could have something to show at your conference. I was hoping to get the full online one. We came very close. In Mia, so that's Europe, has also been quite enthusiastic about getting some Linux platforms up. I'm waiting for the final confirmation. Summer's always interesting with people on holidays but I'm expecting to get platforms up in the Mia. Christian, you have a question about discount and I'm not sure I understand that. So the, I mean, the Fedora Project portal should work anywhere. If it doesn't, let me know. I checked with the portal team a couple of weeks ago and they said everything was up and running. So if I'm missing something there, just let me know and I can go and chase that down. We have had platforms up in AMZ, or AMZ, Australia and New Zealand. So we got some platforms up there last year and they are going to put up more this year. So we should have more platforms up in Australasia. I actually got some positive feedback from Latin America which is for me has been a big one. I've really wanted to get some Linux platforms up in Latin America. I know we have a big Linux community there. Last year, they were just not able to do anything. So I don't have it confirmed but they're evaluating it, they're looking at it. So fingers crossed, we will have some up in Latin America and yeah, South America, Central America. And lastly, we got a couple of platforms up in India last year. I have not heard back from the India web team yet to be able to know, but I'm hoping because we did it last year, we will get more time there. Alrighty. Andre asked about idea pads, et cetera. So we know we're not doing idea pads yet. I get asked about idea pads a lot. I would love to do them. It really has to come from the product team and they need consumer, they need consumer demand for that. So let them know. So I'm not the most helpful person to let know that because I'm gonna be supportive. There are some potential projects happening internally that might help, but basically if you do buy an idea pad, you should get the customer survey on it. Make sure you put in that I wanted to buy Linux and otherwise, yeah, don't post in the Linux forum because that will just end up going to me but you can post in the Lenovo forum saying, hey, I wanted Linux on my idea pad or you know, Lenovo customer team monitor forum. So if you find ways of letting them know, do is kind of one of those customer demand, they have to see that there's enough customer demand to make it, for it to make sense. Eddie, that's an interesting one. So is there any desire to try to open source the BIOS call boot? So actually, I haven't been asked the call boot question in a while. So I think basically the short answer for now is no. It would be a great thing to do but that's not something we're ready to do yet. Carl, how much does the Fedora contributed discount? My understanding is it's similar to the employee discount. It's a little bit less and it really depends. So my experience with the discounts has been when there's not a sale on, it can be very good. When there's a sale on, check the sale price. It says kind of like getting a sale, but just all through the year. If there's anybody who, I'm not looking at the chat window but if there's anybody who's used it and the comments, but I don't get any say in the pricing. I really don't. It's kind of always a little bit, the web team comes up with that. And so I don't actually get to any say in the pricing but it's sometimes a little bit of a mystery already. So I ran out of questions already. Everybody good? Let me just have a quick check on the chat. Alrighty. I am going to, sure I saw somebody say, say, arm and I know I was asked about it in the social room yesterday. So I'm going to talk about the X30-ness. So this is the new on-base platform ThinkPad that we've released with Windows. So it's not in the Linux program. I just want to be clear about that. Yes, Luna, it's the same slide as they've got but a lot of these are actually reused. I'm my apologies for that. So it does have a Debian desktop on it because the developer who's working on it is working with Debian. But I didn't tweet these slides particularly. So ARM have been great. Came to us and said, hey, look, can we do Linux on this platform? And I've tried with previous platforms and not been successful, but this time the product team were like, yeah, okay. So we're doing it as a proof of concept. We're kind of basically it's a, this is the fun part of my job where we get to play and see what we can do. So work with ARM and Lunaro to see how far can we push Linux on this. And it's genuinely going quite well. So we have Linux up and running. We have the developer working on it as Debian. That's actually my machine. So I've reproduced it. So it has Linux up and running. There's a bunch of stuff that doesn't work, which they're still going on the, like Wi-Fi is not working, Bluetooth is not working, graphics drivers not working yet, power management is not there. But we think we're going to be able to fix all of those. The only one that I think is going to be a blocker is potentially the camera. It's a nippy camera and we're not sure if we're going to be able to get, find a solution for the camera, still been worked on from the Lenovo side. So I actually pushed the firmware needed for this platform up to Linux firmware yesterday, to yesterday or Wednesday. I don't know, I forget what day is. And that's, I mean, it's been reviewed. It's not accepted yet, but hopefully it'll be accepted. And again, that will make deploying, you know, being able to do a Fedora installer and do a just basically install a Linux distro on it, normally without having to jump through a bunch of hoops. That will be a large part of that. We are also looking, we need to make changes to the bootloader so that it can pass the device tree blob. This is going to be using device tree, not ACPI for anybody who's interested in those nitty gritty details. So we are looking at how we make changes to bootloader to support a Linux mode and pass the device tree out. So it's very much proof concept. It's not going to be online with a Linux preloader. At least that's quite unlikely, but it's fun. And it's, I know it's one of those I see a lot of questions about. So that's the X13S and new questions. Alrighty. All right, what was the next point? I'm not seeing questions. I'm just going to talk to you guys. You've been warned. I wasn't, I'm going to cover this one very briefly. This really does remap onto the Fedora 36 release party, but without going into details, last year was challenging bunch of technical issues, bunch of supply chain issues. So pretty much no. But I kind of wanted to focus more on some of the highlights. So we did actually at the end of it, so we did the same number of platforms last year. We did manage to actually deliver Linux on all our plan platforms. I know we had a couple of fails on the Fedora front with, because the new driver issues, but we did actually manage to get a Linux delivery on everything we plan to, which was a lot of work and we're quite proud of. I did, despite all the issues, we had a few more web teams engage and we had more Linux systems actually online with our Ubuntu preloader, because they went for the other platforms. And I think one of the bits that for me made a big difference is getting much closer ties with the hardware vendors. And I think that's really started to make a difference. And it's been important. It's the way that it works is Lenovo is a customer with these hardware vendors. And it's really important they need to provide the Linux support. We can't be reverse engineering everything. And so that has been much better working with all the vendors. So before we've always had Intel and AMD, who have always been great, but now I have contact with the NVIDIA people. I have contact with Synaptics, contacts with Elan, Realtek, Mediatek, all of these different hardware vendors and they're doing Linux drivers. So we had a bunch of Wi-Fi component changes and it was painful. But the good news that came out of it all is all of these vendors were doing Linux drivers that went upstream. And yeah, it meant Linux didn't work for six to nine months after Windows, but we actually got the official support. So that for me is important. I think it helps drive Linux generally, not just Lenovo. I think this is important across the ecosystem. Question from James, will we ever see anything pad with the RISC-V? I can't answer that one. The core answer is I can't actually talk about future platforms I'm not allowed to. And honestly in this case, I don't know. So, sorry. Couple more questions in Qo, Q and A. Why no FWD firmware for X250 BIOS and similar models? Okay. And a question about docking stations. So, I am going to cheat a little bit. I'm gonna segue it. So let's go do two open source contributions. I will get to the LVFS questions. So just I'm gonna use this slide and then answer the question. So I think contributing open source is kind of the core of any Linux program. It should be, otherwise you're not doing it right. So from a Fedora point of view, and this is where you guys are fantastic to work with. I've done multiple merge requests just to pull in drivers fixes patches that are in a maintainers branch and I can pull them into Fedora. And I did that for the Z-Series N for the X1 Carbon and get them into Fedora quicker. Big thank you to Justin who's been helping me along there and the process works and it means we can get support for our platforms in quicker. So that's good. So we only do stuff that's upstream. We're not trying to put in anything that's not upstream. We've had, on my team, I've had more members of my team actually get kernel patches in. So instead of it being just me, I think we have now four members of the team who've actually contributed directly to kernel. They had to fix for Mac parts through and other pieces. So that for me is good. It means my team is getting more experience and we still have a long way to go. We're still essentially junior at this, but it's good. We're engaged and working with the kernel maintainers. And then the bit I want to mention, LVFS. So LVFS amazing project, I just, I love it. So the question was, why not for the X250? So X250 is old, realistically. It's quite, it's one of those everybody thinks it's really easy to just put the firmware on LVFS. And there is some validity to that argument. But it does take a bunch of work for the firmware team so they have to prepare it and then they have to test it. And it's not non-trivial. And they are signed up. They have their requirements. And so I'm afraid for the X250, I don't think the Linux program exists. I don't know if it's on the call or not, but I don't think we had the Linux program in place. So the firmware team just would not have had doing LVFS releases as a requirement. So I'm afraid the sad reason is that that's why not. It's why the Linux program is actually kind of important because it means that I get a big hammer to go and beat up firmware team and say, hey, you need to go and do the firmware release. And there's actually, there's been other mistakes that we've made along the way that we've had to fix. But that's my guess. I don't know the X250 I've never had on, but that's my guess why it's not there. I do want to highlight, and I know I hate people who do this like, yeah, well, they don't actually question they do something else, but 1.6 million downloads of firmware is like, that blew my mind. And 500 devices, we have been adding more devices. So battery, camera, Thunderbolt controller, a bunch of things, they don't always go up smoothly. It's kind of interesting how hard it is, but yeah, more platforms, more devices. And we have actually got doc support up there, which segues me nicely to any working on better sports for Thunderbolt docking stations. Right now they don't work very well. So I'd actually kind of, I am right now using the Thunderbolt 4 dock. So I'd be interested to, I think I know, I think I know what your issues are. And I'm guessing some of them are related to, and actually I've got to keep an eye on time. Ooh, four minutes. Some of them probably related to multi monitor, which here's more of a mutter issue to my understanding than docking stations. But to answer your question on docking stations, yes, we are definitely working on better sport. There's some things I can't tell you about, but yes, it's definitely a priority. I think docking support has been challenging. It's really hard with a docking issue to know whether it is the dock or the monitor or the system or Linux, right? Realistically, but no, we have some exercises to go on there and to hopefully improve that. We have been doing certification on the workstations, mobile workstations with the dock. So they tend to be the better ones, but I do appreciate it's not perfect. There's definitely still books that need to be put on there. So, and P1 Gen 3.3, I was using P1 Gen 3 and Dot 3 is my daily driver for like quite a while. Think Pad A SP unlocks from hot plug. I haven't seen that problem. I might have to get you to ping me separately on that one as to what that one is, that one's not really about. And yeah, I was using P1 Gen 3 with Fedora and a Thunderbolt 3.4 solid six to nine months. Alrighty, I've got a horrible feeling. I'm just, if I've got time, I've got two minutes. Have I missed anything off to the sponsor social now? All right, there you go. Thank you, everybody. That was whirlwind. Yeah, I'll be in the sponsor social if there's any other questions or just around generally. Just ping me with the caveat. I'm on vacation next week. Alrighty, thanks, everyone.