Hi,
I think I’m allowed to confirm Fedora will be coming with the X1 Carbon 9 - I hope so! We’re currently in test and energy cert with the updated F33 image the community kindly created for us recently.
I can’t commit to a date when it will be available, but we learnt a lot from our experience last year and it should go more smoothly this year. I’m hoping it won’t be very long before it’s available and online in the US and Canada.
We are still having some teething issues with getting systems up worldwide but there is light at the end of the tunnel there. I’m not making any prediction because it turns out I’m terrible at them - but it’s being very actively worked on and there are a lot of people in Lenovo pushing to make it happen.
Fingerprint reader works (I think I’d be in trouble if it didn’t!).
WWAN is not available in the initial release but is being worked on. WWAN has been a bugger challenge than I expected (we are working on it for the X1C8 too and will have news there too in the not too distant future). We’ve got a lot of hurdles cleared but there are still a couple of pieces that fall in place. Fortunately the regulatory issues are looking good so now it’s mostly down to the last implementation issues and how to get the various pieces into users hands.
HPD (Human Presence Detection) is not supported on Linux I’m afraid - it’s an interesting feature but not available for Linux yet.
Hope that helps. Let me know if I missed anything
Mark