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HP To Certify Ubuntu 12.04 LTS For Its Proliant Servers

Posted by timothy on Thursday April 19, 2012 @02:32AM from the buzzword-laden-nod-to-middle-management dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this dose of nice news (untranslated from the PR-ese) on the Linux-in-business front: "Mark Shuttleworth has announced at the OpenStack conference that Canonical has received a ringing endorsement from HP in the form of certification for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on the ProLiant server systems. Responding to customer demand, HP has decided to officially support the popular flavor of Linux giving sysadmins another flexible software option to leverage their current and future hardware."

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Re:No other Unix? by characterZer0 · 2012-04-19 02:51 · Score: 4, Informative

HP already certifies other distributions and operating systems. They are adding Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to the list.

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Re:does anyone still care about "certification"? by characterZer0 · 2012-04-19 02:55 · Score: 2, Informative

Since lawyers and accountants got involved in everything.

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Re:Awesome! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-04-19 03:44 · Score: 4, Informative

Ubuntu Server is basically Debian with a support contract. Which is precisely what a lot of people want.

Ah but it's got the name "Ubuntu" in it so it doesn't make your neckbeard tingle?