2002, but continued to support other distributions such as Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise, and Turbolinux using customer installations on A30, A30p, A31p models. This continued through the Lenovo transition with the T60p, until September 2007.

The following year, ThinkPads began shipping with Linux again, when the R61 and T61 were released with SUSE Linux Enterprise as an option. This was short-lived, as Lenovo