blob: 7204c7eb6edc5c9ec7e494e08eaa63b74ed81dea (
plain)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
|
Lenovo, the third largest maker of PCs, announced this morning at the ongoing LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, that it will start selling laptops preloaded with Linux instead of Windows.
The new Lenovo laptops will use Novell's Linux distribution and they won't it the market until later this year, but they will be available direct to consumers in addition to business customers. Lenovo hasn't announced any pricing details for the new machines.
With Dell already [selling PCs with Ubuntu pre-installed][2], two of the top three computer makers in the world are now offering Linux as a pre-built option.
And the Linux option appears to be spreading, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth said last month that he is negotiating with "[other large PC makers][1]" interested in offering machines with Ubuntu.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/07/more-big-name-p.html
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/05/ubuntu_fiesty_f.html
|
