Dell's doing it. Acer's kind of, sort of doing it. Now Lenovo has announced that they too will begin selling laptop computers pre-loaded with Linux. While Dell has gone with the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, Lenovo plans to offer Linux software provided by Novell (we assume that means Suse).

It's not clear which Lenovo laptop models will get the Linux treatment. But they should be on sale during the 4th quarter of 2007, and will be available to business and home users.

Pretty soon we're going to stop reporting every time a mass market computer manufacturer announces they'll

be distributing Linux PCs, because it's starting to get commonplace. Well, unless you count the possible scammers over at Medison that claim they'll be releasing a Linux-based PC for $150 using commonly available computer parts. That's not exactly commonplace. But it also looks like a case of too good to be true. We all know Microsoft Windows costs a lot of money, but picking up a fully functional PC for less than the price of Microsoft's operating system? That's probably just too good to be true.