How to Buy a Computer Preloaded With Ubuntu

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Dec 1, 2010 5:57 AM EDT
ComputerWorld; By Katherine Noyes
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If you've ever paid attention to the market share statistics for desktop operating systems you probably know that Linux is most frequently pegged at about one percent. That's a dramatic underrepresentation, of course, due largely to the fact that Linux is free. Whereas Microsoft, for example, keeps careful count of each and every copy of Windows it distributes, in the case of Linux there's typically no vendor keeping count. Rather, users simply download, share, and enjoy the open source operating system to their heart's content without any official monitoring.

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