With HP in, All OEMs Now Ship Desktop Linux

“At long, long, one more time with feeling, last, HP is shipping
Novell’s SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) 10 SP2 on a business
desktop: the HP Compaq dc5850.

“The problem was HP was a house divided when it came to shipping
a Linux desktop. A lot of HP, mostly on the engineering side,
wanted to do it. A lot of other HP staffers, mostly management,
wanted nothing do with it.

“It’s not that HP didn’t get that their customers wanted Linux.
They already knew that. HP had actually been shipping Linux on
servers for ages. Next to IBM, when it comes to servers, HP is the
most significant supporter Linux has. I mean, besides supporting
the big names of Linux, like Red Hat and Novell SUSE, HP actually
supports more obscure Linux distributions such as Asianux,
Mandriva, and even the ultimate community Linux distribution:
Debian.”

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