Europe, China get Linux on Dell

DELL has decided to expand sales of consumer personal computers loaded with the Linux operating system to Britain, France, Germany and China.
The world's No. 2 PC maker started selling Ubuntu Linux PCs to consumers in May in a program that was limited to the United States. Ubuntu is a free version of the software.

Linux software, the main rival to Microsoft's market-dominating Windows, has been one of the fastest-growing types of software on business computers over the past decade.

But it has yet to gain a foothold in the consumer market, where Windows sits on more than 90 percent of personal computers.