LinuxWorld: HP Announces Support for Debian Linux
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Now is this really all that unexpected? Ah, guess that is a question that each of us will have to ask ourselves I suspect.
SAN FRANCISCO– Hewlett-Packard is throwing its support behind the Debian
Linux distribution, the first major hardware maker to align itself with the noncommercial community-based Linux offering.
HP, Palo Alto, California, says it will support Debian Linux on its ProLiant and HP BladeSystem servers, and what it says is the industry’s first Debian Linux customizable thin client from a major vendor, the new HP t5725 Thin Client server.
HP is supporting Debian because it has been shipping Debian Linux servers to customers in the fields of telecommunications and high-performance technical computing, said Jeffrey Wade, open source and Linux marketing manager at HP’s offices in Houston. HP’s involvement with the Debian dates back to 1995, he said…. Source: PCWorld
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Sajestanus
January 6th, 2008
at 10:48pm
If I have read it correctly, this would mean that they’re only going to support it on servers. This isn’t helping me any. There are users that use linux for more than just a server.
In my opinion, HP should consider supporting linux on their non-server systems, such as laptops and desktops.
Sajestanus
January 6th, 2008
at 10:51pm
It seems this post is from 2006; I didn’t realize that. It’s been two years and they still haven’t supported linux on a laptop or desktop system. (Dell supports Ubuntu linux on both their desktops and laptops {a few of them anyway}).
Anyways, I didn’t mean to gravedig. :P