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HP Shipping Turbolinux HP in Asia

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the just-an-ocean-away dept.

An anonymous reader noted that "Turbolinux just announced they will be distributing TurboLinux 10 Desktop with HP's Compaq business Desktop PCs in 12 Asian countries, including China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. "

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  1. Re:Earthquake by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Financial Times Article: HP to install Linux in Asian products

  2. Re:...or desktops for that matter... by MooKore+2004 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here

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  3. 11 countries by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hong Kong isn't a country.

  4. Gee something sponsored by HP relating to linux by SmallFurryCreature · · Score: 4, Informative
    mmm, well there is this. Does that count? It is a little project called the kernel. Some linux fans seem to think it is important.

    Grep it for HP and Compaq. Now grep it for IBM.

    So I would say HP is as committed as IBM. Both have something to gain by linux. They just have different ways of going about it. Yes that Linux add is nice. Helping making the kernel available for free is also nice.

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  5. HP recommends windows XP by nileshbansal · · Score: 4, Informative

    Although HP is selling some Turbolinux installed systems in India, all their ads(in newspaper) show "HP recommends MS windows XP". They are selling preinstalled-linux just to save XP's license fee, which they otherwise have to pay if they sell windows pre-installed machines.

  6. New Desktop 10 from TL by towatatalko · · Score: 4, Informative

    One may wander why Turbolinux and not say Red Hat is being shipped by HP and it seems they are just picking the strongest player there. TL had strong presence in Asia from its beginnings even though they had to close their US offices in July 2002 due to the mismanaged capital they had. They kept going in Asia and so now are apparently the most recognized Linux brand there. Their new desktop product in version 10 had no reviews amongst Linux analysts, I wonder if someone had the chance to try that distro recently.

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  7. HP by fr0dicus · · Score: 3, Informative
    Having sat through more than my share of HP sales briefings about their dedication to Linux I can confirm that they haven't got a bloody clue what they're on about. Of the three Unix vendors I have to deal with Sun, IBM, HP, HP blatantly care the least and are purely in it for the ca$h.

    Boo, hiss HP.

  8. Re:Great but... by 1u3hr · · Score: 2, Informative
    HP has always been the complete opposite. The fact that HP was one of the last platforms to have a linux port...

    But they do support most of their printers. Their PCL and PostScript clone ones work perfectly with well documented PDLs.

    See linuxprinting.org and their offically supported HP Linux Inkjet Driver Project. Unfortunately cost-cutting and outsourcing of some product development and resulting patent issues has made this less than perfect; but they are trying.

  9. Re:Interesting development for HP by 1u3hr · · Score: 2, Informative
    This was a bit confusing to me that HP would start pushing different distros in different parts of the world.

    TurboLinux is an Asian distribution and has better support for Asian languages, especially Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Also it makes sense for support that you'd use a distro that alrady has a local presence if possible. They all should be able to use the same drivers and any other model-specific hacks.