Vnunet reports that Acer will be pushing Linux aggressively, not only on it’s ultra portables, but on its laptops as well.

It appears they’re betting that a 15 second boot time, and an extended battery life (from 5 hours on windows vs 7 hours on Linux) will persuade customers to make the switch. The lower purchase price is just icing on the cake.

PC World has the blow by blow.

Who will stand as the desktop Linux champion?