Dell will offer Linux presinstalled

30 03 2007

The second largest computer company Dell, will be offering Linux preinstalled on their PC’s
BBC story here…
Dell + Linux = true

They have not yet announced which linux version will be used.
Dell offered a Linux alternative on their servers, but now it seems that it will happed for the desktops/laptops as well.

Dell had launced an ideastorm website to determine what the users would want, and the loudest opinion was to have Linux supported and preinstalled as an alternative to windows on theis computers. Dell announces the results of the ideastorm here. Of 100 000 particicipants over 70% said they would use linux. Even though the “flavour” of the linux distro is not yet determined, some believe that it will be SuSE.

p.s here is some trivia