HP to Globally Launch Linux-Based PCs

Rade T. writes "Reuters UK reports that HP, the No. 1 personal computer and computer printer maker, said on Wednesday that its putting its weight behind personal computers that run the Linux operating system. I guess this is the first serious step towards solving the problems that Linux faces on the Desktop/Laptop."

Comments

Buy with a conscience

[Mr. Darl McBride]

I feel compelled to remind people that HP is currently one of the leaders in outsourcing tech jobs.

I'm not suggesting you do or don't buy a PC because of that. But I do feel that data point should be out there for US Slashdotters. Your dollar is at an alarming low compared to other currencies, your job market is a shambles, and these actions are arguably not helping things along.

Re:Buy with a conscience

[dreamchaser]

Our job market is in shambles? A 5.6% unemployment rate is NOT shambles. Also, as a hiring manager in IT I can certainly attest to the fact that there are IT jobs being filled in the States, too.

I know this is offtopic, and feel free to mod me as such. I just can't let FUD like that stand on it's own merit without some clarification.

I'm not fond of seeing jobs go overseas, but that's the price of free trade sometimes. There are also about 6 million jobs in the US for foreign companies (names like Sony come to mind, plus many more).

Re:Buy with a conscience

[LWATCDR]

Actually the company I work for is trying to hire phone support techs and a programmer or two. We can not find them. The programmer we got with a shinny degree did not know what a hash table was. He also did not know what the STL was, or how to program in perl or java. He had a limited knowlege of c++ but we spent months teaching him.
It might just be the area I am in but finding phone techs is not easy. No I am not in India and it is very unlikly we will ever outsource. We find having the support people right next to the programers the best way to provide really good support.

Re:Buy with a conscience

[dR.fuZZo]

A 5.6% unemployment rate is NOT shambles.

If you've watched or read any stories about unemployment over, oh, I don't know, the last year or so, you've probably heard it said that the unemployment rate is artificially low because of people who stop looking for work and because of underemployment (e.g., folks with degrees getting laid off from tech companies and taking jobs flipping burgers.)

I could post you the number of real jobs lost over the last few years (hint: ends in "millions") but I'm sure you can go google it yourself.

This is great news!

[Krik Johnson]

I recently installed Mandrake 10.0, and although it is still the community version with a few minor bugs, but ar being fixed, I can honestly say that Linux really is ready for the desktop. KDE 3.2 is wonderful, all my hardware works, hundreds of games and software packages and more. If you haven't tried a KDE 3.2 based distro such as Mandrake 10.0, SuSE 9.1, Gentoo 2004 or the soon to be released Slackware 10.0, please try it out and you will see why HP and others are rushing to bring out the latest Linux based desktop machines! P.S. If you have propreitery windows applications that you need to run, try crossover offfice! So get your self linux today and join me and THOUSANDS of Slashdot readers today in the Linux community!

Nice

[AvengerXP]

Now the crappiest OS meet the crappiest PCs. Ok now maybe not the crappiest, 2nd crappiest. Bluelights take the 1st prize.

Not Anon, because i believe every single word of it.

Re:you should have been blocked forever

[thesupraman]

You complete moron.

Did you actually read my posting? do you have some grasp of the english language?

look, what I was saying is that my country allowed a group of AMERICANS to come HERE and work for 6 months, in highly paid jobs, effectively taking jobs from our people, however we welcomed them with open arms, treated them well, and did everything to make that a good stay.

Then the same people, when I was going to the US simple to TRAIN them so THEY could do a job over there, blocked my entry and renneged on their contract. In the end they couldn't do the job themselves anyway, so your precious US people ended up losing work over this.

In my country, that is considered a pretty damn stupid thing to do, maybe it's just business as usual in the good ole US of A.

Believe it or not there are things other countries can do better than the US. It is safe to say that I will not be entering into further contracts in the US, therefore business opportunities will be lost in your precious country. This is no problem for me, I have plenty of customers elsewhere wanting my services.

And anyone who thinks this is off topic, think a little deeper. The topic here is a company who has actually got the good sense to offer an alternative to a *proven* monopoly. It would also seem that they have the common sense to have work done in the places where it can be best done. GOOD ON THEM!. I, as someone who strongly believes in REAL equalities and fairness, strongly applaud their actions.