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HP To Sell PCs With Mandrake 9.1

Posted by simoniker on from the enticing-mandragora dept.

theoddball writes "HP just announced a new PC model (HP Compaq d220) that's available preloaded with Windows or Mandrake 9.1. The machine appears to be targeted to business users, although it's on the lower-end of the scale - specs are here. Mandrake also has a press release announcing the deal, which will grow to include four other HP models. Is this a sign that top tier manufacturers are taking Linux more seriously, or at least seeing a profitable niche?" We commented on MandrakeSoft's status update yesterday.

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  1. Re:With all these legal problems... by BriSTO(V)L · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is such an obvious (and pathetic) troll, I *almost* couldn't be bothered to reply to it... Get a life, MCSE boy ;-)

  2. A step forward... by miketang16 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Congrats to HP for being one of the first major PC companies to preload Linux on the desktop. Maybe they finally realized that businesses like security...

    As for Mandrake, eh.. it's good for some people, personally I like Gentoo, tho.

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  3. Re:Why Mandrake I do not understand ? by Snoopy77 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I do not make any sense why

    Probably because your education system has not provided you with a firm understanding of the english language.

    Can anybody spell Lindows, or Gentoo

    Yep, you can spell just fine, as can most of us. It's more your use of commas, your terrible grammar and your inability to string a collection of words together to form a sensible sentence.

    BTW ... on a serious note, in terms of simplicity Lindows is an alternative but Gentoo is a geeks (or at least newbie geeks) zone only.

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