down with M

two of the largest PC makers in the world, Lenovo, and Dell is going to use Linux as their operating system for certain PC models they pushing out.

"The PC maker, at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo beginning Aug. 14 , will announce a plan to pre-load Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 on one of its ThinkPad notebooks, sources familiar with the two company's plans said.

Lenovo, whose ThinkPads have long been a favorite of Linux users, will become the first PC manufacturer in recent history to allow individual customers to buy one of its notebooks, a ThinkPad T60p mobile workstation model, with the operating system pre-installed, the sources said. " (quoted)

Its high time. Microsoft does not deserve the kind of market share. so much cash in the company only means that private equity should raid it, squeeze it dry. Let the open source rise up. Let the free people rise up.