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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2006-01-25
Outside of servers of course, Dell's Ubuntu offerings are in their home store, so Dell is pretty clearly targeting home users who want Linux (they aren't doing anything to create demand for it though). Dell Business needs to have a minimum number of computers ordered to get Linux preinstalled, otherwise the only option is no OS (FreeDOS). You're probably thinking of Levano offering Linux preinstalled on enterprise laptops, and now HP is doing it for enterprise desktops. It IS happening on all fronts, although there is no promotion of this quite yet, so while its a good start, I personally wouldn't quite declare this to be year of the Linux desktop, I'm still predicting that will be in 2010, we're getting close now though