Toshiba Italy Mulls Pre-Loaded Linux Notebooks

“Toshiba’s Italian channel sales and marketing operation
reportedly is considering offering pre-loaded Linux in its Tecra,
Satellite, Portege, and Qosmio notebook lines, according to a story
published online last week in the Il Sole newspaper.

“Luigi Cattaneo, country manager for Toshiba’s Italy Computer
Systems Division, reportedly acknowledged that Hewlett-Packard and
Acer own more than 50 percent of the Italian Windows laptop
computer market, and that one way for his company to move ahead
would be to offer pre-installed Linux as an option, the newspaper
reported…”

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