I swear I saw a few news reports in the days of the dot-com boom (before the bust of course) wherein PC manufacturers were bundling Linux on their machines. I guess it wasn't successful because it went for naught a few months (weeks?!) later. Just this year, Dell started shipping Ubuntu Linux on particular desktop and notebook models. Then a few weeks ago I read that they'll be expanding that offering.

Acer here in Singapore is starting to offer Ubuntu too. Now I read that Lenovo will bundle SuSE Linux on particular ThinkPad notebook models. This time though, Lenovo is targeting the enterprise, not the home desktop. Is this the beginning of change? Or another fad just like the dot-com boom and bust the previous decade?