"Hewlett-Packard, the world's Number 1 PC maker, will try selling pre-loaded Linux on PCs in several countries as it expands a test program--evaluating a market that some competitors have already entered--and moves its personal computer business into a new generation of form factors and functionality.
"The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company is in the nascent stages of a pilot program in Australia, where it offers a model of its HP PCs pre-loaded with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 for small and mid-sized businesses..."
