HP Optimizes HP Kayak PC Workstations for Linux | Linux Today

HP Optimizes HP Kayak PC Workstations for Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 17, 1999

“Hewlett-Packard Company, the worldwide workstation leader(1),
today announced that it has optimized its family of
industry-leading HP Kayak PC Workstations for the Linux operating
system, further demonstrating HP’s support of Linux and the
objectives of the Linux community.”

“… HP has collaborated with CERN for more than a year to study
the performance and reliability of the HP Kayak PC workstations
running Linux… not a single hardware or Linux-related failure has
been observed, further validating the reliability of the HP Kayak
PC Workstations running the Linux operating system.”

“Linux is enjoying almost exponential growth in the scientific
community, and our work with HP is an important benchmark of its
success…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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