Dell has confirmed rumors that they will be offering desktop and notebook PC’s pre-installed with the Linux operating system. Details are still hazy on what models will be integrated into the Linux plan and to which Linux distribution will be available for installation, but those details are promised to be cleared up in the coming weeks.

No word yet on whether the Linux installed computers will be cheaper then the Windows installed PC’s, but since many Linux distributions are based on open source and free software, we imagine the price would show as fit. Contrary to Vista, Linux also come with pre-loaded package installers with many free applications. — Andrew Dobrow

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Developers are gonna love this. The Linux Trolltech Greenphone, complete with SDK tools is really more of a tool or a kit then a “phone” per se. Linux has advertised this phone as a tool for developers to create new software for mobile phones, but on a totally open source spectrum. Its $700 price tag confirms the point that this is more then your “typical” phone. The Greenphone isn’t exactly “user-friendly” either. Featuring hardware giltches and annoyances that would through any non-developer off into a hissy. If the Greenphone is going to be a long-term project, the kinks in the system will eventually be worked out, and might even become the standard for developers to work through. Who knows, maybe Linux might move further into the developer realm then they already are.

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