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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. Great but... by 3cents · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's always good to see linux being adopted elsewhere but I worry about HP's commitment to helping the opensource community. It looks like they sponsor a few project here but thats seems like a far cry from IBM's investment in open source. So my question is this. Do you think HP is simply profiteering off the backs of generous open source developers or are they doing enough as is?

    Slashrank

  2. HP trying to keep Itanic alive by bstadil · · Score: 3, Insightful
    If you notice the HP kernel effort is almost exclusively centered around the Itanic.

    HP were betting at least half the farm on Itanic, when they canned PA and Alpha and they are pretty much up the creek now.

    Their Itanic Linux effort is fine but 100% self serving, prety much nothing they contribute has an impact on Linux at large.

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