"If thinkpad laptops were sold with linux preinstalled, which distro?"
Ubuntu seems to be the runaway winner .. 375 votes for it. In contrast,
Fedora got just one vote, Redhat got 17, and all the others (SuSE etc)
totaled a few dozen, tops.
http://lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=98
Not too many ideology fans I see .. just 13 votes for " Anyone that refuses
to carry binary-only drivers, so that all others will also benefit, as it
will require documented hardware".
srs