“Dell agreed to ship PCs and laptops with the Ubuntu operating
system after more than 130,000 people promoted the notion on the
company’s IdeaStorm web site. It would seem, however, that only a
fraction of these zealots were willing to back their votes with
cash.“Dell has shipped close to 40,000 systems pre-installed with the
Ubuntu flavor of Linux, according to multiple sources. By most
accounts, that’s a heck of a total for what remains more or less a
fringe operating system. Ubuntu fans are urged to hold back their
virtual quills of vitriol following that last sentence and remember
that the OS trails major desktop and notebook OSes by quite a
margin…”
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