Dell to Sell Machines with Ubuntu Pre-Loaded

W00t! Posted to Slashdot on Tuesday May 01:

Cnet is reporting that Dell will shortly announce a partnership with Canonical to offer Ubuntu pre-loaded on certain consumer-oriented desktops and notebooks. The announcement comes after a groundswell of support for pre-installed Linux on Dell's IdeaStorm site. 'The company is starting its business by trying to appeal to users of desktop computers. From there, Canonical Chief Executive Mark Shuttleworth has said, the company plans to head to the server market, where the real Linux bread and butter can be found. [Dell spokesman Kent] Cook wouldn't comment on whether Dell plans to offer Ubuntu on its servers as well.'.

I've mentioned before how Ubuntu is my new favorite distro - I run it at work on my only machine, and at home I have a primary workstation which dual-boots Ubuntu and XP, and a secondary workstation solely running Ubuntu, as well as our main file server running the same without a GUI. And as a server it performs just as admirably as it does on a desktop.