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HP going to offer Ubuntu now?



On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 16:16:17 -0400
"Kristian Hermansen" <kristian.hermansen-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> When/where was the conference?  I think many large manufactures have
> offered Red Hat for some time (Dell, HP, Compaq), but no Desktop Linux
> OS has made it to mass consumers.  I think we are in the midst of a
> major shift, if HP does indeed start offering pre-installed Ubuntu.
> Maybe this is finally the year Desktop Linux became mainstream? :-)
> Let's see how it all plays out...

March 30, 2006 at 11:30 (It was in my calendar). It was one of routine
talks we had in the HP Linux community. It had nothing to do with
providing Linux on consumer desktops. But, the issue here was for HP
Linux people to understand Ubuntu. Dell recently announced it would
provide Ubuntu preloaded on their consumer systems. Additionally, HP
had provided desktop systems to corporations.=20

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