Linux Ready for Primetime?

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sun Mar 11, 2007 12:23 AM EST

Article Source: RedHerring.com

Hewlett-Packard may add a Linux-run PC to its line of computers—perhaps indicating the desktop computer market is finally ready for open-source operating systems, an HP exec and a Linux expert said Thursday.

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Michael Sautter

Which distribution of Linux would HP use?

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#1 - Sun Mar 11, 2007 9:08 AM EDT

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Yannick Lyn Fatt

I'm guessing Suse 10 or Redhat initially then support for others after, similar to what Dell might do. I'm also guessing that they will give the option for no OS installed so that customers can install whichever distro they would like.

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#1.1 - Sun Mar 11, 2007 11:17 AM EDT

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Vesper

If HP supports the Linux boxes as well as they support Windows boxes, I don't see a problem with it. My biggest complaint with Linux has always been support. As a computer professional, I can usually figure out what is wrong with a computer and it's OS and fix it fairly easily. I have found that not to be the case for myself and Linux.

My latest attempt was with Ubuntu. I installed it under Parallels to see how well it performed and if I would like it on an older Windows box I have here. It installed easily enough. However, I wasn't able to install Thunderbird as an email client. I got some strange error message from the program used to do the installation. It's possible that running Ubuntu in a virtual computer environment may be messing it up, but I find that hard to believe.

I certainly would love to see some decent alternatives to Microsoft and Windows. Something that is way more secure than XP and Vista is so needed these days. It's why I use a Mac now instead of XP or Vista. Up until last summer, I had been a Windows person as far back as Windows 2.0. :)

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#2 - Sun Mar 11, 2007 9:36 AM EDT

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stevetherobot

I've found that the best way to figure out what is wrong when I get a strage error message is to google the error message. I almost always find an answer that way.

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#2.1 - Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:27 AM EDT

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