Times online: Linux - Dell rolls out Windows rival in Europe - Rhys Blakelely
Dell, the second-largest computer maker, today unveiled its first computers in Europe to be sold installed with the Linux operating system, rather than Microsoft’s dominant Windows system. The potential competition to Windows, which along with the Office software suite is one of Microsoft’s two most important cash cows, was upped further when Lenovo, the third-largest computer maker, added that it would also start selling laptop computers preloaded with a version of Linux developed by the rival software group Novell at the end of this year.
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