Chinese computer supplier Lenovo has denied a report that it is planning to stop offering Linux on its range of PCs and laptops.
Dell, HP and Lenovo have promised to push chipset vendors to make open source drivers for Linux.
Lenovo has announced it will offer a pre-installed version of Linux on selected ThinkPad notebooks.
Engineers and designers in need of a mobile workstation now have the option for a preloaded version of Novell's Suse Linux on a ThinkPad laptop computer.
After strong pressure from open-source fans worldwide, Dell has added another territory to its Linux PC domain, launching two computer models for the British market with Ubuntu Linux pre-installed.
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