“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.’