Mandriva, HP To Ship Linux PCs in Latin America

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 18th Jan 2006 18:18 UTC, submitted by Vautnavette

"Mandriva today announced a new partnership with HP to distribute HP computers pre-loaded with Mandriva Linux 2006 to 37 countries in Latin America. As part of the agreement, Mandriva has been named the 'Preferred Linux Partner for Latin America' and Mandriva Linux 2006 has been optimized and certified for HP machines. The companies will work together on sales, support and marketing in all Latin American territories, including Brazil, Argentina and Mexico."

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Nice for Latin America

by DrillSgt on Wed 18th Jan 2006 19:50 UTC

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2005-12-02

This is a good show for Latin America being able to get PC's with Linux. Now, as alwasy, I am still wondering when these options will be available in the US? If it can be done in other countries, it can be done here as well.

Edit: Corrected spelling

Edited 2006-01-18 19:51

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RE: Nice for Latin America

by Unbeliever on Wed 18th Jan 2006 20:57 UTC in reply to "Nice for Latin America"

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2005-07-09

HP already sells some PCs (mainly notebooks) with Linux on them. I know there is an model that comes with Ubuntu (can't find the link in their store) but I found a laptop that comes with SuSE 9.1 (they really need to update it to at least 9.3)

It's the 'business' model, but the difference is minimal from the consumer model.

Check here: http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05a/321957-64295-89315-32...

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RE[2]: Nice for Latin America

by DrillSgt on Wed 18th Jan 2006 21:38 UTC in reply to "RE: Nice for Latin America"

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2005-12-02

Thanks for the link. I did not know they had any, so I guess that is a start. I was talking more along the lines of being able to order a standard consumer PC with Linux pre-installed. In the US they already have a partnership with Suse, so I would think it would not be that hard.

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37 Countries???

by alejandro on Wed 18th Jan 2006 20:19 UTC

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2006-01-18

I'm not an expert in Latin America (I just live there ;-), but certainly, there are about 20 countries in Latam, not 37.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America

I hope that this initiative is applied in the 87 states of US too.

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Mandriva keeps on truckin'

by JeffS on Wed 18th Jan 2006 22:03 UTC

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2005-07-12

Of all the desktop oriented distros, Mandriva seems to be the one most likely to succeed in the long run. For one, they are already profitable. Two, they are growing. Three, they are expanding their markets (Connectiva purchase, the enterprise server market, distribution with hardware OEMs, and services). Four, they have a business savvy CEO in Fran�ois Bancilhon. Five they have a tech savvy CTO in Gael Duval who's enthusiastic about Linux, open source, and making the best distro possible. Six, they have a talented development staff. Seven, they have a large, loyal, and enthusiastic community.

Mandriva remains one of the my favorite distros (along with Ubuntu, Mepis, and pure Debian). I'm glad for their continued success.

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RE: Mandriva keeps on truckin'

by AdamW on Thu 19th Jan 2006 03:27 UTC in reply to "Mandriva keeps on truckin'"

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Thanks for the nice words, but on a point of accuracy, Gael isn't our CEO. He's currently in charge of the new Community project.

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37?

by leo prieto on Thu 19th Jan 2006 00:02 UTC

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2006-01-18

Alejandro is right. They probably mean every single country in South and Central America + The Caribbean. But still, 37?

Aside from that, this is great for us down here!

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...

by Mitarai on Thu 19th Jan 2006 02:01 UTC

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2005-07-28

In countries where you can get pirated Windows copies for $5 it is really hard to compete.

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RE: ...

by thebluesgnr on Thu 19th Jan 2006 06:26 UTC in reply to "..."

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2005-11-14

You can get Windows from the Internet in any country.

Anyway, even in places where most consumer desktops have unlicensed copies of Windows installed there's a good market for Free software companies. Microsoft is good at getting governments to go after companies using unlicensed copies of Windows, and the bigger the company the smaller the chances of running unlicensed software are.

Also, in these countries the push for Free software is greater as there are more people pushing for it. I'm not going to type here about this but you can google for free software and social movement. One example is a recent program from the Brazilian government where low end computers will get tax benefits (as well as better loans for consumers) if they come with Free software installed.

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RE: 37?

by re_re on Thu 19th Jan 2006 02:56 UTC

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2005-07-06

did they include texas, porto rico, and canada by accident?

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RE[2]: 37?

by joelito_pr on Thu 19th Jan 2006 05:26 UTC in reply to "RE: 37?"

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2005-07-07

did they include texas, porto rico, and canada by accident?

Texas(Lots of mexicans in the south and a lot of spanish)
Porto Rico?(You must mean Puerto Rico mostly spanish speaking)
Canada(French Canadians perhaps?)

Now seriously, I hope they at least included Puerto Rico in the list. If that's the case then it would be the reason to be glad it's a Teritorry instead of a State(Well that and the beauty pageants)

BTW: I'm not an expert in that Island, I just live there and prefer.

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d'oh

by AdamW on Thu 19th Jan 2006 03:29 UTC

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2005-07-06

CTO, I meant, not CEO. Gael isn't either of those things.

How the hell do you edit posts here? Everyone else seems to know the trick, but I don't.

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RE: d'oh

by ma_d on Thu 19th Jan 2006 04:51 UTC in reply to "d'oh"

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2005-06-29

You click edit, it appears where "Reply" is on everyone elses posts.

I'm not sure, but I think it may dissappear after you restart your browser. Nope, it's still there.

Edited 2006-01-19 04:51

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RE[2]: d'oh

by cm__ on Thu 19th Jan 2006 05:58 UTC in reply to "RE: d'oh"

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2005-07-07

The Edit link disappears after some time, like 10 minutes or so. Enough for fixing typos and formatting, but OTOH users shouldn't be able to change their comments after the discussion moved on.

Good work by the OSNews devs, IMHO.

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RE[3]: d'oh

by AdamW on Thu 19th Jan 2006 07:11 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: d'oh"

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2005-07-06

Either I'm really dumb and blind, or it's broken for me. I don't remember ever seeing it say edit, even one second after I post. Let's see what happens with this one...

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RE[4]: d'oh

by AdamW on Thu 19th Jan 2006 07:12 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: d'oh"

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2005-07-06

OK, it says "Reply" on the main page, but if I _click_ on the reply and get to the reply page, it says "Edit" there. Huh. Hardly intuitive...is it meant to say Edit on the main page? Is it somehow broken for me?

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Computer for All

by visconde_de_sabugosa on Thu 19th Jan 2006 12:23 UTC

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2005-11-14

Also, in these countries the push for Free software is greater as there are more people pushing for it. I'm not going to type here about this but you can google for free software and social movement. One example is a recent program from the Brazilian government where low end computers will get tax benefits (as well as better loans for consumers) if they come with Free software installed.

Yes, this project is "Computador para Todos" (Computer for All)

http://www.computadorparatodos.gov.br/
(in portuguese)

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