There’s a story on Reddit’s front page right now, The avalanche has begun: Toshiba (Italy) considers preloading notebooks with Linux
I am all for the wider adoption of Linux, and vendors that are willing to preload a Linux distribution on their machines rise considerably in my estimation. However, pardon my skepticism if I don’t think this is necessarily the beginning of some avalanche – since when did a single rock rolling down a hill equal an avalanche? Might be a precursor to such an event, or maybe it’s just an interesting singularity.
Also, just read the title! They haven’t even committed to something! So I guess my earlier statement should have really been “A rock thinking about rolling down a hill does not an avalanche make.”
Sorry if I can’t get so excited about a single branch of a large corporation investigating the possibility of maybe providing their customers with the option of ordering Linux preloaded. 
