This type of move could get me to buy from Dell. I would love to have an decently supported linux laptop, but haven’t been thrilled with any existing offerings.

This is an interesting move by Dell and speaks to the strides that open source is making in the OS space. This morning on the Direct2Dell blog, the company announced a partnership with Canonical to offer the Ubuntu distro of Linux on select machines. (Via jkOnTheRun.)

Unfortunately, nothing is available today. Companies need to capitalize on the speed of blog news by having products available when they make these announcements. Its guaranteed to drive sales when they do.