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HP To Sell PCs With Mandrake 9.1
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.
Format the drive, and install WindowsXP!
Will the Mandrake version come out lower?
Are you a tard?
Well it's about time HP started listening to their user base. I've been using HP computers for several years now (the very best, in my opinion!) and I've had a lot of problems on the times I've tried to run Unix on them. Their customer support for that sort of thing was sorely lacking, as I'd spend an hour on the phone when them after installing Red Hat Unix over the Windows operating system that came with the computer, and then not being able to get Office to work. They kept telling me to reboot the computer over and over again, but Windows wouldn't come back up.
Now that they're using Mandrake Unix, which from the statistics I've seen is the most popular Unix in the world, maybe their tech support will improve.
The only thing that worries me is that I heard Mandrake was a French company, and therefore there might be some issues with importing a french operating system into the U.S., given the impending embargo. Also, the French government is pretty strict about their language and culture, so that could be a big problem. I don't think many American Unix users are going to like having to double click on "Mes Documents" to get to their files!
Regardless, I hope HP is successful in this. A lot of people on Slashdot have said you need a big, well-known name like Microsoft to stand behind something like Unix so idiot bosses in corporate america will accept it, but I think HP brings enough clout, along with the proven success of Mandrake Unix, to make a good go at it now that HP isn't going to sell windows anymore.
Consensual sex is boring.
I wonder how long it will take until HP releases iPaq's with linux already installed.
Do you ever get the feeling Cary Fiona wakes up anhd thinks, "Hmmm... How can I waste all these shareholders' money today?" When I read articles like this, I sure do.
Now if HP would make a decent PC...
At least they are better than scumpaq...
In Soviet Russia, dense is beingk you!
While there is such a patriotism bruhaha going on, I do not make any sense why, an American company like HP, chooses to sell systems preloaded with a French Linux distribution, contributing to the bottomline of a French company, who backstabbed US not a long while ago. Especially important because, a plethora of other more sensible alternatives are floating around. Can anybody spell Lindows, or Gentoo, if the simplicity is the concern ?
If everyone other than me in my family had to use linux, they would stop using computers.
It's windows and macs for those folks.
Personally, I think Linux is fun to play with occasionally, but I wouldn't want to try to do something serious with it... say, edit video, create artwork, manage source code, create product to send out to clients.
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You may not be aware that Mandrake Linux is a French product. Indeed, you would never know because of their shallow attempts to conceal this fact. But a simple trip to the whois database can reveal the truth. Now, you and I would never spend our American dollars on French wine, and we would certainly never travel there. So, why should we support a French company? We shouldn't.
While talking out of one side of their mouth about peace and security, the French have been actively engaged with terrorist groups and terrorist nations to sabotage our efforts to secure our future. You can read about this here and here. The French have stabbed us in the back repeatedly and, driven by their jealousy of our great Nation, they have exposed themselves as the traitorus liars that we have always suspected. It is also widely known that Jacques Chirac was an active supporter and business partner of Saddam Hussein. This is well documented; you can learn more here and here.
The French are having a very difficult time because they are long past their colonial greatness and have descended to a chaotic socialist society of laziness and ineptitude. Rather than realistically assess their own blame and work to restore their own status, they seek to bring us down. They lash out at the great nations who now lead the world community. The French are a shallow people who resent with great bitterness those who saved them. In WW1 and WW2 we rescued the French after they surrended and allowed them to preserve their way of life. But who can forget that the French jeered and spit on our liberating forces, before the final shot had even been fired? For more information check here or here.
We must now teach the French a lesson, and it is for their own good. They should not bite the hand that saves them, for soon we may decide they are not worth saving anymore. Therefore I urge you to boycott Mandrake Linux. Of course it would not be American for me to tell you what to do. If you must use Mandrake, then use it. Simply do not pay for it.
Now that I have your attention, I would like to discuss the larger issue of Linux in general. It is time for us, fellow patriots, to look at our situation in the world on a global scale. Microsoft is an American company. Bill Gates started with nothing and built an empire. What is the problem here? We should be supporting American enterprise, not undermining it. The simple fact is that no true partiot would use Linux at all. In these hard times we must rally around our companies, our economy, and our president. If we let the 'Linux Community' have their way, we will all be at the mercy of the Germans making KDE, or the Japanese with their desktop. Do you plan to learn Japanese in the near future? You may have to, if we don't start poneying up to the bar and laying it down for our cause.
Thank you for your attention. I trust I have reached you with this message, and we all look forward to a world united under the flag of Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way!
You may not be aware that Mandrake Linux is a French product. Indeed, you would never know because of their shallow attempts to conceal this fact. But a simple trip to the whois database can reveal the truth. Now, you and I would never spend our American dollars on French wine, and we would certainly never travel there. So, why should we support a French company? We shouldn't.
While talking out of one side of their mouth about peace and security, the French have been actively engaged with terrorist groups and terrorist nations to sabotage our efforts to secure our future. You can read about this here and here. The French have stabbed us in the back repeatedly and, driven by their jealousy of our great Nation, they have exposed themselves as the traitorus liars that we have always suspected. It is also widely known that Jacques Chirac was an active supporter and business partner of Saddam Hussein. This is well documented; you can learn more here and here.
The French are having a very difficult time because they are long past their colonial greatness and have descended to a chaotic socialist society of laziness and ineptitude. Rather than realistically assess their own blame and work to restore their own status, they seek to bring us down. They lash out at the great nations who now lead the world community. The French are a shallow people who resent with great bitterness those who saved them. In WW1 and WW2 we rescued the French after they surrended and allowed them to preserve their way of life. But who can forget that the French jeered and spit on our liberating forces, before the final shot had even been fired? For more information check here or here.
We must now teach the French a lesson, and it is for their own good. They should not bite the hand that saves them, for soon we may decide they are not worth saving anymore. Therefore I urge you to boycott Mandrake Linux. Of course it would not be American for me to tell you what to do. If you must use Mandrake, then use it. Simply do not pay for it.
Now that I have your attention, I would like to discuss the larger issue of Linux in general. It is time for us, fellow patriots, to look at our situation in the world on a global scale. Microsoft is an American company. Bill Gates started with nothing and built an empire. What is the problem here? We should be supporting American enterprise, not undermining it. The simple fact is that no true partiot would use Linux at all. In these hard times we must rally around our companies, our economy, and our president. If we let the 'Linux Community' have their way, we will all be at the mercy of the Germans making KDE, or the Japanese with their desktop. Do you plan to learn Japanese in the near future? You may have to, if we don't start poneying up to the bar and laying it down for our cause.
Thank you for your attention. I trust I have reached you with this message, and we all look forward to a world united under the flag of Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way!
now sales of windows will go up, when all those poor souls who buy an hp with mandrake realise how crappy linux really is. if i wanted a computer with the functionality of win98, i'd buy it.
The machines don't go on sale until JULY 7TH. RTFA MORONS! You people are dumb shits that shouldn't use a fucking GAMEBOY let alone a PC!
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