Dell to put instant-on Linux on the new Latitude line

[Patrick]

New Dell Latitude laptops will have LatitudeON (instant on Linux) installed by default:
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20046/53/
http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/20 ... for-l.html

This alone will bump the install base of Linux. Dell sells a lot of machines. I really hope Dell promotes this. Yeah it's awesome that they sell machines pre-installed with Ubuntu but you have to kinda dig around the site to find any references to it. It's not advertised anywhere. I still get mailers from them with "Dell recommends M$ Vista for all machines".