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HP Shipping Turbolinux HP in Asia
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. "
You Americans should be ashamed of yourselves!
Detainees at Guantanamo Bay are shackled for up to 15 hours at a time in hand and leg cuffs with metal links which cut into the skin. Their "cells" are wire cages with concrete floors and open to the elements - giving no privacy or protection from the rats, snakes and scorpions loose around the base. A diet of foul water and food up to 10 years out-of-date has left inmates malnourished. By contrast the camp guard dogs have wooden houses with air conditioning and green grass to exercise on.
But worst of all is the use of vice girls to torment the most religiously devout detainees. Prisoners who have never seen an "unveiled" woman before are forced to watch as the hookers touch their own naked bodies. One said an American girl had smeared menstrual blood
You make me sick! How dare you call yourselves the land of the free and the defenders of civilization. You make me sick! You are a bunch of depraved lunatics who deserve to drown in pig shit!
Some people always want to be FR1ST, like HP.
can it run Linux(TM)?
Free hooker show? Where can I get tickets to this 'Guantanamo Bay' thing?
I'm obviously a karma whore - full text of article
Turbolinux To Ship with HP Commercial Desktop PC Systems
New systems will be sold in 12 Asian countries, including Korea, Japan and the People's Republic of China
TOKYO, Japan - March 16, 2004 - Turbolinux, a global provider of Linux solutions, today announced the Turbolinux operating system will be distributed on HP Compaq business desktop PCs in 12 countries throughout Asia.
"The adoption of Linux on the desktop across Asia is booming," said Koichi Yano, president and COO of Turbolinux, Inc. "We're pleased to partner with HP to give customers an integrated desktop solution tailored to meet business requirements in many different markets."
Turbolinux will also provide HP customers with OpenOffice.org 1.1, the integrated open source application suite that offers desktop productivity software with similar functionality and the look and feel of Microsoft's Office product. Customers can easily exchange files created and edited in OpenOffice with Microsoft Office.
"HP offers a portfolio of Linux solutions on industry-standard hardware and software to enhance customer productivity," said Tad Bodeman, director of software product marketing, Personal Systems Group at HP. "HP's offering of Turbolinux in Asia demonstrates our commitment to serving our customers' needs around the globe."
The Turbolinux OEM software bundle is built around Turbolinux 10 Desktop (10D), one of the first distributions to ship with the new Linux 2.6 kernel. It is designed to capture the intuitive look and feel of popular desktop user interfaces, including those for viewing and sharing local files and browsing networks.
In addition, 10D offers applications for advanced technologies such as 802.11b, FireWire, CD-ROM burning, Bluetooth and digital camera image loading software. Customers can easily update the desktop software with the latest Linux kernel, packages and security patches - usually without a system reboot - by using a graphical update tool.
"Today's announcement by HP and Turbolinux is the latest demonstration that businesses around the world are accelerating their adoption of Linux," said Stuart Cohen, CEO of Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a non-profit global consortium of IT vendors and customers dedicated to advancing Linux in the enterprise. "We're pleased to see global companies such as HP and Turbolinux working together to deliver business Linux solutions to customers in the fast-growing IT markets in Asia."
Today's announcement builds on recent news that Turbolinux will offer Linux on HP systems in the People's Republic of China. The new agreement adds 11 new countries, including Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.
Turbolinux will provide technical support to HP's engineers to assist in resolving any complex support issues. Turbolinux and HP have pre-certified all hardware to be shipped under the OEM agreement for Linux compatibility and smooth operation. In addition, customers can download from the Turbolinux Web site all GPL source code shipped with the HP Compaq business desktop PCs.
If MS-OS monopoly finally breaks, I reckon March 17, 2004, is a key turning point.
...looks like another target for SCO! I wish those suckers would try and sue HP, and get their brains beat out. That'd be funny. PS: I apologize for the SCO stuff again, but I just couldn't help it. They're kind of like crack, you know. Twitch...twitch.......
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Quite suprising considering used to be is easy to find illegal software in Thailand.
I think HP is making the right choice by taking advantage of the situation. And with the CEO-Prime Minister Thaksin tipped to win the next election, things will only get harder for pirate software vendors.
Indefinitely Detained US Citizen
Just because your backwards assed country doesn't know how to handle itself, doesn't mean that we should come over there and hold your hands. The reason we are free and have such "great" facilities is because we fought for it. And we are still fighting for it today. So why don't you stop complaining about what the U.S. should be doing for you, and fix your own damn country!!!
Kirk Johnson, A.K.A the goatse guy, is back, with his new website! 9 pages of ass stretching action!
Viva la Goatse!
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mirrored for when the sites goes down
Asinine crapflood attacks against Taco and his minions only harden their resolve. The answer to the /. repression and groupthink is thru stealth, not brute force.
These turds must be STOPPED!!!!!!!
props to anti-slash, slops to GNAA!
Hai, Meesto Shopkeeper, I would rike one HP Rinux PC!
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
(now, where's that $#@! coffee?...)
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
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?
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I thought TurboRinux was dying?!
Hong Kong isn't a country.
The site seems to be getting a bit sluggish for when it goes down Mirrored for when the site goes down
She's already shipped our jobs overseas. Why not ship Linux computers?
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Fiorina also said the company would increase its outsourcing efforts, but more for processes such as accounting. Most of HP's manufacturing is already outsourced.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-270614.html?legacy=
Excuses to SCO group because the world doesn't let them steal what never belong to them... Muaaaaahahahaha!!! :P
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.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
Does is support Western pedofiles going there to fuck children?
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.
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.
IP was invented for the sake of lawsuits.
I suspect that it was the major reason Ms Fiorina and her gang (sp?) hasn't stopped flirting with Linux just yet (the other reason is HP realizing that something has just got to replace HP-UX... )
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Boo, hiss HP.
This summer, when it gets hot outside, and your
hemmoroids get even hotter, just look to the cool
relief of Preparation-H to get you on your way.
My mom lives in Singapore, and complains a lot about Internet Explorer and Windows in general. I've tried to get her to buy a Mac or at the very least, switch to one of the Mozilla browsers.
She is resistant because she says there are a lot of web sites that are IE-specific, and don't work properly with other browsers. Singapore has moved to some kind of Internet-based tax filing system, and one of her Mac-using friends apparently had quite an exhausting experience trying to file her taxes through the web site. She (my mom's friend) eventually gave up and used one of the Wintel boxes at work to do her taxes.
Can someone more tech-savvy than my mom report on their experience with IE-specific web sites that Singapore citizens are required to use? I'd love to be able to get my mom using some other browser. There are some pop-ups you just don't want your parents seeing...
-- Bander
What we need more of is science!
They shoot you if you chew gum.
Much of the labor force is guest workers who are denied citizenship rights.
The rightful owner Malaysia should annex these bums and straighten things out.
they have their own flag, dummy
I haven't seen much TurboLinux here in the USA for about 3 years now. I still have an old ISO CD of it around, but it was klunky(3 years is a long time ago in Linux-years).
This was a bit confusing to me that HP would start pushing different distros in different parts of the world. Must be a marketing thing? They have a deal with Mandrake, and are increasing the push on it here in the USA and abroad. Now they also are offering TurboLinux, and I think you can get servers from them with Red Hat as well.
Makes me wonder just what their overall Linux strategy is...maybe to just "spray-n-pray",ie; blasting the market with as many solutions as possible hoping to hit with something.
I just hope this doesn't signal a move away from Mandrake. They have a great distro that continues to be at the forefront of features and UI/GUI develoopment for the desktop.
It could just be a response to Novell/SuSe. Talk about potential, they could have a bunch of server and client Linux solutions rolling soon that could really grab some market share. That is, if Novell doesn't fsck it up somehow or fail to put enough $ and time into it for it to develop.
Flash is the Herpes of the Internet.
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Slashdot probably has one or two international readers you know.
This was copied from the linked article, but it's still wrong. There are 12 regions listed, however only 10 are "countries". Hong Kong certainly isn't (it was a British colony, now it's a "Special Administrative Region" of China). Taiwan officially is a province of China (though in practice it is independent).
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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Dell, HP, and IBM are ALL offering desktops with Linux preloaded. Expect to see HP laptops offering Linux preloaded by summer.
...that with the amount of piracy in South East Asia, most desktops will still be running Windows. Linux may be "free" but for all intents and purposes, a pirated Windows XP installation cd will still come out cheaper. Said cd costs approximately $1.50, meanwhile, the amount of time and the bandwidth needed to download and burn, say, Mandrake, would be in the region of $4, _at_least_. And since broadband is as rare (or prohibitively expensive) in the region as snow, the cost is likely to be more expensive. If the poor kid doesn't have a cd burner then he'd have to go to a computer shop to burn one, which would add another dollar to the cost. This is happening in a region where the daily minimum wage rarely goes over $2.50. Local LUG's are trying their hardest to distribute as many cd's as they can to as many people as they can. There are also quite a number of enterprising individuals (who staunchly claim they support Open Source) who sell linux cd's at $1 per disk. But distribution is not the biggest problem. The problem is the amount of support people can get their hands on for troubleshooting installations. A botched XP installation can be fixed with a phone call to the local "techie." The same cannot be said for linux. The general impression is that running Windows is cheaper in the long run since: a) you can get an "installer" at a cheap price (pirated, of course); and b) everybody else uses it so if you stumble into some problems, help can be had with a phone call or text message.
2. HP is a leading supplier of server hardware and support services.
3. An emerging Asian market that wants Linux.
4. Profit!
Finally a profit formula that doesn't have step 3 as a question mark!
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Toronto Star article here
HP started selling their Compaq presario range of desktops and laptops in India some months back. The desktops comes preloaded with TurboLinux and the laptops comes with Mandrake 9.1 . Compaq's linux laptops are the cheapest in India.
-- Bijesh