“Two useful indicators of the increasing viability of Linux on
the desktop; one personal, one public. The public one is the
imminent announcement of preinstalled Linux on Dell Desktop
machines, combined with the news that Vista is foundering enough
for OEMs to fall back to XP.“The other, more personal, is what happened when I went into
CompUSA last night to buy a new laptop. Because I do Linux product
reviews, it had to be able to dual-boot Linux well, and
specifically support Beryl…”