Dell announced yesterday that they will expand Linux factory installed options to include their notebook and desktop lines (they already provide Linux options on their server line). Hopefully this will motivate the other major hardware vendors to do the same. I think Linux on the desktop will definitely be something we look at in a year or two when most of our desktops will be nearing end of life (with Windows XP). We already run OpenOffice.org and other open-source apps for the school so the switch to desktop Linux shouldn’t be too painful. Hopefully with the new support from Dell, there will be more offerings in the desktop management space (equivalents to group policy).

[Via Techdirt]