WSJ: Puffins guide HP on Linux trail

"HP is funding the Puffin Group to adapt Linux for its computers."

"... personal gain was the last thing on anyone's mind when the Puffin H-P project began last October at a Linux convention in Atlanta. Over pizza, the Puffins -- named after a big-billed sea bird, in tribute to Linux's official mascot, the penguin -- discussed their next venture. They seized on H-P's PA-RISC line of computers, which are widely used in business and engineering but hadn't inspired a Linux adaptation. No one in the group actually used the machines; that wasn't the point. "We dove into it because it hadn't been done," says Beard.'

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