Lord of the Links

Dell, too, has joined the open source party. It has decided to offer its Latitute 110L, preloaded with Mandriva Linux 2005. The laptops will also have popular applications such as OpenOffice, which should bring in more savings for the consumers.

Pre-loaded computers are absolutely essential for Linux's popularity since they take away the biggest bottleneck for linux usage - its installation, which despite having been made extremely easy over the years, still remains "geeky" compared to the alternative.