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Hewlett-Packard Brings Linux To Select Desktops
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by pgaliba | September 1, 2007 at 10:43 am
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The world's largest PC manufacturer, Hewlett-Packard, has reportedly announced it will start selling Linux-based PCs aimed at the consumer market. For the time being it appears the HP Linux models will only be available in Australia, with prices starting at $AU600 (just under $500 USD).The new machines will use AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processors and come equipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop, which features OpenOffice, Firefox and Evolution (e-mail) pre-installed.
Max McLaren, General Manager at Red Hat in Australia, tells APC Mag, who broke the news, that “with the cost of proprietary systems continuing to rise, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop minimizes acquisition and ongoing deployment costs, leaving more money and resources for other high-value projects and tasks.” Which is corporate-speak for “Linux is cheaper than Vista.”
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at 11:16 on September 1st, 2007
Awesome! I'm dipping my toes into Linux waters for the first time (with Ubuntu) and am quite enjoying it. The dirty lil' secret here is that Linux allows all of the activities used my most home PC users (web, text, client-based email, office apps), as well as many office users... Setup was also easier than I thought it would be, and I haven't had to use the command-line yet. Though I'm sure I will at some point...
at 12:36 on September 1st, 2007
pgaliba |, I use a Mac Book P (Just like the one in the nice image on the NP home page). Would love to get a laptop with Linux on it to play with. I know, I can run Linux on my Mac book, but a Linux only laptop would be fun. Cheers, Tom.
at 12:42 on September 1st, 2007
I think there are a few virtual-machine clients that have free "players", and you can download a useable version of several linux packages to mess around with. the MacBook Pro is more than enough machine for the task... then you could have both without the landfill-fodder of two laptops!
at 14:09 on September 1st, 2007
Yes, you are so right about the "landfill-fodder"!
at 15:13 on September 1st, 2007
My testing machine here at NowPublic Global HQ runs XP, but has a VMWare client running a second version of XP, Vista, and Ubuntu Linux. That way I can test all the plug-ins I want and just revert back to snapshots rather than reinstalling operating systems every time something goes horribly wrong... kinda like the room in which Neo fights Morpheus in The Matrix.
I just couldn't justify actually having three different machines for all of that, not when virtualization is so easy these days. When I worked at a computer shop, I was shocked by how many people were willing to throw away a perfectly good machine that was "too slow", rather than upgrading the memory or whatever, not even thinking ahead of where the discarded machine would end up.