Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 30th Aug 2007 22:13 UTC
Hardware, Embedded Systems Ending months of rumors, Hewlett-Packard appears to have released its first mass-market PC with pre-installed Linux. Specifically, the company will soon be selling RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) Desktop 5 on its HP dx2250 PC to Australian customers. HP, long a staunch Linux supporter both on the desktop and the server, had never offered a pre-loaded desktop Linux. There have, however, been many rumors in recent months that HP was on the verge of announcing a business Linux desktop with SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) 10 SP 1, Ubuntu 7.04, or RHEL Desktop 5, or its delayed desktop Linux brother, Red Hat Global Desktop.
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This is not a first for HP
by porcel on Thu 30th Aug 2007 23:47 UTC
porcel
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2006-01-28

HP has offered laptops with Suse before and PCs with Mandriva as well.