Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 30th Aug 2007 22:13 UTC
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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You are absolutely correct on this, which is why I have had to roll my eyes for quite some time when I see people jumping up and down about Linux not being offered by major PC manufacturers.
I think in the end here, the marketing for this will be to business who are already using Linux, specifically RHEL. More importantly, they seem to have narrowed down a Linux distribution that has support directly from the distro (Red Hat) which will cut down on HP having to support Linux. It will be interesting to see how much service they will allow on these, even more will these desktops be in the Smart Buy program, and what if any support contract will be included from Red Hat.