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Lenovo has announced it will offer a pre-installed version of Linux on selected ThinkPad notebooks.
After announcing its move into the Eastern European enterprise market with a new Linux and Lotus based PC, an analyst has said it is unlikely IBM and its partners will offer anything similar to Australian businesses.
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.
Chinese computer supplier Lenovo has denied a report that it is planning to stop offering Linux on its range of PCs and laptops.
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Cheap PCs with a Linux operating system seem to have hit the users' sweet spots, with taking the plunge into the alternate OS not nearly as hard as users had thought.
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