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.

According to vnunet. Sales are up 3.5% higher in Q1 2008 than in Q1 2007.

Linux just keeps on growing.

According to vnunet despite a 22.6% growth in market share, revenue was a paltry $5.42m in Q1 of 2008.

Unfortunately, with easy access to pirate copies of windows available in China a good number of Linux installations will likely be replaced.