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Dell said on Wednesday night in the US it will begin selling three models of PCs with Ubuntu Linux preinstalled on Thursday.
Thousands of Dell users have contacted a user forum to call for PCs to be shipped with a Linux operating system and the OpenOffice application suite.
Dell desktops loaded with Ubuntu Linux will cost US$50 less than Microsoft Windows-based systems but it is still unclear if and when they will be available in Australia.
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