Pre-Installed Linux Tops Dell Customer Requests

Within only a few days of Dell opening a new customer feedback website, they discovered that the feature most requested (by an almost 2-to-1 margin!) is an option on all new Dell PCs: pre-installed Linux. (And the number 3 request is pre-installed Open Office.) I believe they’ll have a harder time now with the tired old mantra ‘There’s no customer demand for Linux.’

I am very impressed by the results so far. The “Pre-Installed Linux | Ubuntu | Fedora | OpenSUSE | Multi-Boot” topic has over 25,000 requests! Hopefully this is the beginning of even better things to come from Dell. It would be nice to see them begin using their resources to code stable modules and donate them to the Linux kernel to have even better Linux support all around, not just for specific distros.

Source: Slashdot