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HP Starts Pushing Desktop Linux

Posted by michael on from the first-hit's-free dept.

iswm writes "HP has supposedly been selling MandrakeSoft Linux on the desktop for a while but has been so quiet about it that for all intents and purposes it's been a stealth operation. That's all about to change, with two new Linux desktops ready for rolling out by HP to the North American SMB market, both boxes to be sold with Mandrake Linux."

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  1. Re:But then again... by sinewalker · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    yeah I almost gave up reading the article.

    was thinking they would never get to the point.

    like they really didn't have anything more to say.

    or else the editor is a moron and just learned to use cut&paste.

    Sort of like that -- and then the point of the article was exactly the same anyway...

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  2. Re:What's Microsoft gonna do? by fathomDragon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    wait wait wait. hold on.

    Microsoft actually thinks they have an OS?

  3. Re:i bought one of these last year by Tenfish · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    blah blah blah Gentoo blah blah blah blah compile yourself blah blah blah blah blah blah took me only three days blah blah blah blah blah blah

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  4. If you believe in God by rsilvergun · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    you probably believe He's watching out for you. Especially if your life sucks (since you're turning to Him for hope). Taken from that perspective, you _do_ have a 'God given' right to a job.

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  5. gcc? by Rotworm · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    My boughten copy of mandrake didn't come with any C compiler, wheras the download version did. I eventually had to download gcc for Mandrake 9.1 (only because I didn't want to register my copy).

    I sure hope they include a C compiler with this edition, otherwise people will be upset (like I was).